Man Arrested Over Theft Of Van Gogh and Hals Paintings
The 58-year-old was taken into custody in Baarn in central Holland. He is suspected of stealing works by Vincent van Gogh and Frans Hals from museums in the towns of Laren and Leerdam.The paintings have yet to be recovered. Frans Hals’s Two Laughing Boys with a Mug of Beer is valued at €15m (£13m; $17.5m).
Van Gogh’s painting known as ‘Spring Garden’, or Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring, a loan to the gallery was taken during a break-in at the Singer Museum in Laren, near Baarn, in March last year.