Charles Hill, art sleuth who tracked down works by Titian, Vermeer, Goya, and Edvard Munch's The Scream – obituary
Charles Hill, art sleuth who tracked down works by Titian, Vermeer, Goya, and Edvard Munch’s The Scream – obituary He recovered The Scream during an elaborate ‘sting’ operation in which he posed as a representative from the Getty Museum in California Charley Hill: a natural for covert work in the art world Credit: Richard Anset Charles Hill, the art detective, aided the recovery of many priceless objects in an adventurous career both with the Metropolitan Police and as a freelance investigator, most sensationally Edvard Munch’s The Scream and Titian’s Rest on the Flight to Egypt....