Frans Hals painting 'Two Laughing Boys' stolen for a third time [Photo: Courtesy]Thieves stole a painting by Dutch Golden-Age master Frans Hals from a small museum near the Dutch city of Utrecht on Thursday, police said, the third time the canvas has been stolen. “Criminals know that major museums have sufficient security,” he told the Dutch broadcaster, but smaller regional museums less so. The Van Gogh painting taken in Laren, the 1884 “Spring Garden,” has not been recovered. Read Also: Wealthy Ukrainian lawmaker says he has Gutenberg Bible fragmentHals, a contemporary of Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn, was born in the early 1580s in Antwerp and moved as a child to the Dutch city of Haarlem. He is best known for his painting “The Laughing Cavalier” as well as some of his life-size group portraits.

Source: Standard Digital August 31, 2020 15:26 UTC