Jacob de Gheyn III (painting) facts for kids
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Jacob de Gheyn III
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Jacob de Gheyn III by Rembrandt
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Jacob de Gheyn III
1596 |
| Died | 1641 (aged 44–45) |
| Nationality | Netherlands |
| Known for | Painting, Engraving |
| Movement | Baroque |
Jacob de Gheyn III, also known as Jacob III de Gheyn (1596–1641), was a Dutch Golden Age engraver, son of Jacob de Gheyn II, canon of Utrecht (city), and the subject of a 1632 oil painting by Rembrandt. The portrait is half of a pair of portraits. The other piece is a portrait of de Gheyn's friend Maurits Huygens, wearing similar clothing and facing the opposite direction.
Thefts
The painting has been given the name of the "takeaway Rembrandt" as it has been stolen four times since 1966 – the most recorded of any painting.
Between 14 August 1981 and 3 September 1981 the painting was taken from Dulwich Picture Gallery and retrieved when police arrested four men in a taxi who had the painting with them. A little under two years later a burglar smashed a skylight and descended through it into the art gallery, using a crowbar to remove the painting from the wall. The police arrived within three minutes but were too late to apprehend the thief.
The painting was missing for three years, eventually being found on 8 October 1986 in a luggage rack at the train station of a British army garrison in Münster, Germany. The other two times, the painting was found once underneath a bench in a graveyard in Streatham, and once on the back of a bicycle.
