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Located on two acres of land, the house was built in 1742 for Seth Wetmore, a prominent judge and merchant in Middletown.
New research has revealed the fascinating life story of a once anonymous Black boy in a grand 18th-century English portrait ... at the historic Chatsworth House in England. It depicts the ...
An 18th-century oil painting stolen by mobsters ... The man testified that Imperiale told them where the painting was in the house and was in possession of it at that time, though the claims ...
His house was broken into in July 1969 by Austin Castiglione, Gerald Donnerstag and Gerald Festa, who stole the painting, the FBI said. At a 1975 trial for another crime committed by Donnerstag ...
In a remarkable turn of events, the FBI's Salt Lake City field office announced on Friday the recovery and subsequent return of an 18th-century British painting ... a Florida house from Joseph ...
The 18th-century house where George Frideric Handel composed ... They can see Handel’s bedroom, paintings, prints, and memorabilia associated with him and his friends and more in the house ...
The 1710 Sir James Thornhill wall paintings adorn the main staircase An 18th Century Worcestershire house has won a national award for the conservation of wall paintings. The honour relates to the ...
Mark Aronson, deputy director and chief conservator at the Yale Center for British Art, said that the work of Reynolds, the leading English portrait painter of the 18th century, was “notoriously ...
The U.S. authorities have returned nine stolen works by the 18th ... paintings were reported as stolen from a church in Lima in 2008. Eight of the works were subsequently found in an auction house ...