
Irish Game
Vermeer, Goya, Rembrandt, Rubens - the Beit art collection was worth millions. For decades Sir Alfred and Lady Beit had lived peacefully at Russborough House in Ireland. Until people started stealing their paintings...Of all the canvases at Russborough, it was Vermeer''s Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid that most caught the public''s imagination. Twice stolen, once by an IRA sympathiser and the...
Vermeer, Goya, Rembrandt, Rubens - the Beit art collection was worth millions. For decades Sir Alfred and Lady Beit had lived peacefully at Russborough House in Ireland. Until people started stealing their paintings...Of all the canvases at Russborough, it was Vermeer''s Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid that most caught the public''s imagination. Twice stolen, once by an IRA sympathiser and the...