Harry Dalmeny fielding bids. Courtesy Sotheby's. LONDON .- This week’s sales concluded today with a combined total of £77.7 million / $102.6 million, with strong results across Old Master and British paintings and drawings, decorative arts, sculptures...

Jacob Ochtervelt, The Oyster Meal, around 1664-65. Commission for Looted Art in Europe. LONDON - A Dutch Old Master painting that was looted from the Netherlands during World War II was returned by the Lord Mayor of London to an heir of the owner on Monday....

Adam van Breen, Ice Skater, 1611, oil on wood, 28.5 x 41.5 cm. © Kunsthalle Bremen – Der Kunstverein in Bremen. BREMEN .- For decades, this private collection remained a secret: now the Bremen businessman Carl Schünemann has donated his valuable collection...

Jacob Ochtervelt, A Nurse and a Child in the Foyer of an Elegant Townhouse, 1663. Oil on canvas, 32 x 26 1/4 in. (81.5 x 66.8 cm). National Gallery of Art, Washington. The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund. WASHINGTON, DC .- The National Gallery of Art has acquired...

BOSTON, MASS .- This fall, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston , opened Class Distinctions: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer, the first exhibition to look at 17th-century Dutch paintings through the lens of the social classes. Including...

Jacob Ochtervelt, ’Das Zitronenscheibchen’, n. d., c. 1667 © Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Alte Pinakothek. MUNICH.- The restitution claim submitted by the descendents of banker Carl Hagen for the painting ‘Das Zitronenscheibchen’ by Jacob Ochtervelt...

Jacob Ochtervelt, A Child and Nurse in the Foyer of an Elegant Townhouse, the Parents Beyond, oil on canvas, est. $3/4 million. Photo: Sotheby's NEW YORK, NY .- Sotheby’s announced the sale of Important Old Master Paintings and Sculpture, comprising an...