Report of the Spoliation Advisory Panel: Oil sketch in the Courtauld Institute of Art
Report of the Spoliation Advisory Panel in respect of an oil sketch by Sir Peter Paul Rubens, 皇冠体育app Coronation of the Virgin, now in the possession of the Samuel Courtauld Trust (HC 655)
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皇冠体育app Spoliation Advisory Panel advises claimants and institutions on what might be an appropriate course of action to take following a claim.聽
皇冠体育app claimants are the descendants of Herbert Gutmann, a prominent German banker and art collector who sold 皇冠体育app Coronation of the Virgin in 1934 to pay off business debts.聽 皇冠体育app painting is now in the possession of the Samuel Courtauld Trust.聽 皇冠体育app claimants submitted that some of Gutmann鈥檚 debts were fabricated by the Nazis and others were the result of Nazi persecution in his business affairs.聽聽
皇冠体育app Spoliation Advisory Panel concluded that, whereas there was some evidence that Gutmann had suffered from anti-semitic persecution under the Nazi regime, it was only a subsidiary and causally insignificant factor in his decision to sell his collection.聽 皇冠体育app Panel also found that he achieved a fair price for the sale of the painting.
皇冠体育app Panel concluded that the claimants鈥� moral case was therefore weak and that the painting should not be restituted to the family.
皇冠体育app Spoliation Advisory Panel was designated by the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport as the Advisory Panel for the purposes of considering the claim under Section 3(2) of the Holocaust (Return of Cultural Objects) Act 2009.聽 皇冠体育app Panel鈥檚 ruling has been endorsed by the Government.
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