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Recovered Kushan sculpture to be repatriated to Afghanistan

Published: Friday 17th January 2020

The ALR has worked with the Metropolitan Police and the British Museum to return the sculpture to the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul The Art Loss Register (ALR) is pleased to announce the forthcoming repatriation of a sculpture to Afghanistan. The fragment has been recovered after being offered for sale at TimeLine Auctions, a […]

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ALR Quarterly Newsletter Issue 15 – October 2019

Published: Saturday 5th October 2019

What have we been up to? It has been an extremely busy (but successful!) few months at the ALR. A few event highlights in which we have been involved include… Yesterday… – The ALR’s Paul Exbrayat was in Lille presenting to an academic conference on “From identification to restitution of confiscated works during WW2”, organised […]

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ALR Quarterly Newsletter Issue 14 – June 2019

Published: Tuesday 11th June 2019

Stik stolen from Hackney Gardens As profiled in the Financial Times at the end of May, the Art Loss Register would like to warn the public and art trade that three artworks created by the renowned street artist Stik have been stolen from the Dalston Eastern Curve Garden, a social enterprise garden in Hackney. The […]

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ALR Quarterly Newsletter Issue 13 – February 2019

Published: Monday 11th February 2019

Henry Bone portrait recovered An enamel work by Henry Bone has been recovered by the ALR and sold at a UK auction house towards the end of last year. The portrait of Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Francis Wheler Hood is after an original by Thomas Stewardson, now at Loders Hall in Dorset. A pencil drawing by […]

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Historic enamel portrait by Henry Bone recovered and sold at auction

Published: Wednesday 30th January 2019

Portrait of Lt.-Col. Hon. Francis Wheler Hood Henry Bone R.A. (Truro 1755-1834 London) PRESS RELEASE 30 January 2019 An enamel work by Henry Bone has been recovered by the ALR and sold at a UK auction house towards the end of last year. The portrait of Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Francis Wheler Hood is after an […]

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