Tate Britain is set to return a 17th century painting to the family of a Jewish Belgian art collector after the work was taken from his home during the German occupation.
The Spoliation Advisory Panel, who examine requests for objects taken during the Nazi era to be returned from the UK’s public collections, said the 1654 work Aeneas And His Family Fleeing Burning Troy by English painter Henry Gibbs was “looted as an act of racial persecution”.
