Art Loss Register

A conference organised by The Art Loss Register will focus on forensic science and technology and its use in the art world.

An Anglo-Saxon brooch stolen from Rutland County Museum has been returned 26 years after it went missing.

An Afghan limestone sculpture believed to have been stolen during the Afghan civil war (1992-94), when Kabul was besieged, surfaced at an auction house in the UK last year.

A bronze statue by Henri Matisse has been rediscovered after it was stolen nearly 30 years ago.

Four Chinese jade vessels have sold for 10 times their estimate after being stolen more than 12 years ago.

Dutch Old Master marine painting looted by the Nazis during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944 has been returned to Poland.

The Art Loss Register has doubled its number of subscribers over the past three years.

Two large Old Master paintings worth up to €180,000 (£123,530) have been returned to Italy 22 years after they were stolen.

The Art Loss Register (ALR) has located two paintings stolen from a home in Amsterdam in 2010.

An increasingly bitter spat between two UK art recovery agencies – the Art Loss Register and the Art Recovery Group – has reached the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority.

The Art Loss Register has launched a database dedicated to stolen watches, one they say can help anyone buying, selling or providing loans against second-hand wristwatches.

Christopher Marinello, formerly General Counsel for the Art Loss Register, has announced that he is setting up a rival operation, Art Recovery International, a London-based partnership that specialises in recovering stolen, missing, and looted works of art.