J. H. Smidt van Gelder (Q43305047)
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Dutch doctor and art collector, owner of The Oyster Meal before it was looted by Nazis (1887-1969)
- Joan Hendrik Smidt van Gelder
- J.H. Smidt van Gelder
- Dr Joan Hendrik Smidt van Gelder
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Dutch doctor and art collector, owner of The Oyster Meal before it was looted by Nazis (1887-1969) |
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6 April 1887Gregorian
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22 September 2021
3 June 1969
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Dr Joan Hendrik Smidt van Gelder, Arnhem ;From whose safe in the Amsterdam Bank, Arnhem, looted by Helmut Temmler, Head of the Gaukommando Düsseldorf, in 1945 and taken to Düsseldorf;With Galerie Peiffer, Düsseldorf, 1950s;With Galerie Kurt Meissner, Zurich, 1965;From whom acquired by Ambassador J. William Middendorf II, Washington, by 1967 until 1969 or later, by whom sold to Edward Speelman;With Edward Speelman Ltd., London, by whom sold to Harold Samuel, London, 1971;Bequeathed to the City of London Corporation, 1987;By whom restituted to the heirs of Dr J.H. Smidt van Gelder on 6 November 2017. (English)
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In September 2015 a small party assembled in Mansion House, London, for a private tour of the institution's world- renowned collection of Dutch and Flemish paintings. Among the group was a sprightly 94-year-old Dutch woman, Charlotte Bischoff van Heemskerck, along with members of her family and Anne Webber, the co-chairman of the Commission for Looted Art in Europe, the organisation responsible for locating and retrieving works of art stolen by the Nazis during the Second World War.There was one work in particular, of deeply personal significance, that Bischoff van Heemskerck - known to her family and friends as Hetty - had come to see: a 17th-century painting called The Oyster Meal by the Dutch master Jacob Ochtervelt.It was almost 75 years since Hetty, the daughter of an eminent doctor and art collector named Joan Hendrik Smidt van Gelder, had last seen the painting hanging on the wall of her father's waiting room in the family home in the Dutch town of Arnhem.In 1942, in the wake of the invasion of Holland by the Germans in May 1940, the painting had been removed to a bank vault for safekeeping, where it had remained until 1945 when it was plundered by the Nazis. (English)
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22 September 2021
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- enwiki J. H. Smidt van Gelder