Dutch security forces have arrested a man in the town of Baarn for his alleged responsibility for stealing several works of art, including a painting by Vincent van Gogh that was stolen a year ago from the Singer Museum when he was there. closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Authorities identified the suspect, detained in his own home, as a 58-year-old man. However, there is no record yet of the whereabouts of the works whose disappearance is attributed to him, according to the NOS television network.
Investigators link him to the disappearance of Van Gogh’s “Spring Garden,” stolen from the Laren Singer Museum on March 30, and another work by Frans Hals, “Two Children Smiling,” which was stolen nearly five months later. Hofje van Mevrouw van Aerden photo gallery in the city of Leerdam.