‘Stolen’ Joshua Reynolds portrait at centre of controversy between UK family and Japanese museum

A Japanese museum has claimed it bought a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds “in good faith and without fault from a respectable art dealer” after it was identified as being stolen from a UK stately home.

Portrait of Miss Mathew, later Lady Elizabeth Mathew, sitting with her dog before a landscape was am…

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