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History of theft - from US to France, Goya to Da Vinci

1911

French borders were sealed when the Mona Lisa disappeared from the Louvre. Vincenzo Perugia believed Leonardo da Vinci's picture should be returned to Italy so he stole the masterpiece by hiding it under his smock while alone in the room. Though missing for two years people came in their thousands to look at where it had hung

1961

Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington was stolen from the National Gallery. Unemployed Kempton Bunton confessed to carrying the painting out under his arm, saying he had stolen it as a protest against pensioners having to pay for TV licences. He sent a ransom note to Lord Robbins, a gallery trustee, demanding £5,000 for its return. He returned the painting and later served three months

March 1990

£180m worth of pictures was stolen from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, in America's biggest art heist. Works included Rembrandt's The Storm On The Sea of Galilee, The Concert by Vermeer and paintings by Manet. Two men dressed as police officers gained entry in the early hours, and handcuffed security guards. The paintings were never recovered. There is a £2.75m reward

September 1990

Portrait of Sir William Pitt the Younger by Thomas Gainsborough valued at £5m, other works by Gainsborough and a portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds, were stolen from Lincoln's Inn, London, after thieves beat the guard unconscious

December 2000

Masked armed robbers entered Stockholm's national museum during visiting hours, stealing paintings worth £3m - a Rembrandt self-portrait and two Renoirs, including the Young Parisienne - and fled by motorboat. Police recovered some of the paintings during a drugs investigation four months later.

2003

Three paintings by Van Gogh, Picasso and Gauguin worth £4m were stolen from the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester after thieves evaded security. The paintings were recovered the next day; hidden behind a public toilet. No one was convicted of the theft.

August 2003

A £30m painting by Leonardo da Vinci was stolen from Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, the home of the Duke of Buccleuch. Thieves posed as tourists and overpowered a female guide, taking the Madonna with the Yarnwinder. Despite CCTV pictures of the thieves and their getaway car, a white Golf, nobody was arrested and the painting was never recovered.
Isabelle Chevallot