Masterpiece painting from the 1600s that was one of three worth £10million ... trends now
A 17th century masterpiece that was one of three paintings stolen from Oxford University has been returned.
The baroque painting, A Rocky Coast, With Soldiers Studying a Plan, by Salvator Rosa has now been rehung but two others remain missing.
The artworks, worth £10million, were swiped from Christchurch Picture Gallery during lockdown in 2020.
Thieves smashed through the skylight in the college's art gallery and stole the oil paintings before making their getaway via boat.
After a four-year hunt, the Baroque painting has been recovered from an art dealer in Bucharest, Romania, who is believed to have sold off the other two paintings without realising they were stolen.
Jaqueline Thalmann, Christ Church Gallery curator, showing off the returned masterpiece
Ms Thalmann speaking to press at the gallery
The painting has now been returned to its once empty frame in the gallery
Police are still searching for the other two missing paintings, Antony Van Dyck's A Boy Drinking and A Soldier on Horseback by Annibale Carracci.
Thames Valley Police and Romanian authorities hope that fingerprints on the recovered canvas will help them track down the two missing works which may have been looted by Romanian cat burglars.
Gallery curator, Jaqueline Thalmann told The Telegraph: 'It's wonderful, it's really wonderful. It gives
