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ALR Pricing

Published: Friday 23rd May 2025

We wanted to take this opportunity to inform our valued clients that some of our prices will be increasing in June. The ALR continues to make sure its prices are manageable for our clients, whilst maintaining and improving the level of service we can offer. Over the last year we have grown our database considerably […]

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The ALR is hiring a Recoveries Assistant

Published: Monday 19th May 2025

About us  The Art Loss Register is the world’s largest private database of lost and stolen art. Its range of services include the registration of losses, recovery services for the victims of theft and looting, and due diligence searching for museums, collectors, and the art trade. For more details, see our website at www.artloss.com.  The […]

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Woodgrain fingerprints: how a 17th Century Tompion clock was recovered

Published: Wednesday 3rd July 2024

In c.1691, a Tompion clock was created and given the number 181. Three centuries later, the clock was stolen from a private residence in Wilshire. The family distributed black and white photographs and the police investigated the event, but the clock remained missing for over three decades. In 2022, Bonhams were invited to catalogue and […]

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Over 100-year-old stolen weathervane returned by ALR and VTran

Published: Monday 20th May 2024

The Art Loss Register (ALR) is thrilled to report that a Copper Locomotive Weathervane produced by W.A. Snow Iron Works Inc. will be returned by a generous donor to Vermont. The Weathervane, over 100 years old and depicting a steam locomotive and its coal tender, had previously sat atop White River Junction Station in Windsor […]

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Double portrait of Sir Peter Rubens and Sir Anthony Van Dyck recovered after more than 40 years

Published: Tuesday 14th May 2024

It is with great excitement that the Art Loss Register announces the recovery of a Double portrait of Sir Peter Rubens and Sir Anthony Van Dyck to the Devonshire Collection at Chatsworth House. The unusual medallion portraits of Van Dyck and Rubens painted in grisaille sit in an elaborately painted frame and underneath each portrait […]

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