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Case
The Russborough House Robbery (1974)
In 1974 Rose Dugdale, an English heiress turned IRA militant, led a gang that stole nineteen paintings from the Beit collection to ransom for the release of republican prisoners. All were recovered within days.
Case
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Robbery
In 1972 thieves entered the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts through a skylight and took eighteen paintings, including a Rembrandt landscape. Almost all remain missing — Canada's largest art theft.
Artwork
The Blue Boy
Gainsborough's celebrated portrait, whose 1921 sale abroad caused a national outcry in Britain. Now at the Huntington in California.