A 17th-century Brueghel painting, stolen from Poland's Gdańsk Museum in 1974, has been recovered in the Netherlands with the help of a detective dubbed the “Indiana Jones of the Art World”.

A round painting by the Flemish-Dutch master Pieter Bruegel the Younger was stolen from a Polish museum in 1974. Dutch police, aided by journalists and art detective Arthur Brand, have now located ...

Between them, Antwerp's Museum Plantin-Moretus and the Ashmolean in Oxford own some of the most "outstanding" holdings of 16th and 17th century Flemish drawings, said Jackie Wullschläger in the FT.

It wasn’t listed in any stolen-art registries, with the museum acting in good faith based on the information they had, the ...