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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Gloria Oladipo

Family reunited with John Opie painting stolen by New Jersey mob 54 years ago

big painting in a living room as an older man looks on
Dr Francis Wood, 96, with John Opie’s The Schoolmistress, stolen from his parents’ house in 1969. Photograph: AP

A priceless 18th-century painting has been reunited with the original owner’s son more than a half century after New Jersey mobsters stole it.

Dr Francis Wood inherited the painter John Opie’s The Schoolmistress but had to wait 54 years to receive it after it was stolen.

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