Henry Gibbs painting looted by Nazis to be returned to Jewish art dealer’s family

Tate Britain is to return the 17th-century painting, Aeneas and his Family Fleeing Burning Troy, by English painter Henry Gibbs, to the family of a Jewish art collector. Photograph: Tate/PA

A 17th-century painting by Henry Gibbs that was looted by the Nazis and has been in the Tate collection in the UK for the past 31 years is to be returned to the descendants of a Jewish art collector.

Aeneas and his Family Fleeing Burning Troy was stolen by the Nazis from a gallery in Antwerp, Belgium, after its owner, Samuel Hartveld, was forced to flee in May 1940, eight months after the start of the second world war.