Tate Britain is set to return a 17th-century painting to the heirs and great-grandchildren of a Jewish Belgian art collector, decades after it was looted by the Nazis during World War II.
The artwork, Aeneas and His Family Fleeing Burning Troy (1654) by Henry Gibbs, was seized from Samuel Hartveld’s home in Antwerp as an act of "racial persecution," according to the UK’s Spoliation Advisory Panel, which investigates claims related to Nazi-era looted art.
