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Just six months before the 1994 Scream theft, Hill had cracked the biggest art case in ages, the 1986 break-in at Russborough House near Dublin in which robbers made off with 11 pictures, including a precious Vermeer. In one of many cloak-and-dagger games the book recounts, Hill posed as the middleman for an Arab tycoon. He solves the Munch case by pretending to be a buyer for the wealthy J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, a role that allows him, as his work often does, to accessorize lavishly: seersucker suit, big bow tie, bigger Mercedes...
Thieves sometimes try using artworks as collateral for other underworld deals. The masterminds of the 1986 robbery of Russborough House near Dublin, who snatched 18 canvases, tried in vain to trade them for Irish Republican Army members held in British jails. Others demand a ransom from the museum that owns the pictures. Ten years ago, thieves in Frankfurt, Germany, made off with two major canvases by J.M.W. Turner that were on loan from the Tate Gallery in London. The paintings, worth more than $80 million, were recovered in 2002 after the Tate paid more than $5 million to people having...
...just past six on the cold morning of Sept. 29 when the dark green Mitsubishi Pajero off-roader pulled up at the back of Russborough House, a Palladian mansion outside the town of Blessington in County Wicklow, Ireland. At least three men wearing balaclavas and hooded sweatshirts affixed a plank to the back of the vehicle to turn it into a makeshift battering ram, then ran it in reverse up some steps and into one of the great windows of the 250-year-old house, shattering the glass and the shutters behind. Eleven paintings were hanging on the walls...
Belgian police recovered two priceless works of art, Vermeer's Lady and a Maid Servant and Goya's Portrait of Dona Antonia Zarate. In one of the largest art heists of recent years, the paintings were stolen seven years ago from Russborough House, the Dublin-area home of the late Sir Alfred Beit, a private , collector. Three Irishmen and a Yugoslav were caught near Antwerp transporting the paintings, along with six other stolen works, in two rented cars...
...burglar alarm at Russborough House, the country estate of British Millionaire Sir Alfred Beit located 18 miles southwest of Dublin, went off at < 2 a.m. Police searched the premises, found nothing amiss, then left. The next morning, the administrator of the collection discovered that 18 paintings worth an estimated $45 million had been stolen. Sir Alfred put the blame on "thieves of a political nature...
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