A Boston museum will pay restitution for a painting in its collection that was taken from its rightful owner by the Nazis.
The Museum of Fine Arts has been investigating the provenance of a 17th-century Dutch painting by Eglon van der Neer for more than a decade, according to the Boston Globe. It will pay the heirs of Holocaust victim Walter Westfield an undisclosed sum, and in return will be permitted to keep the painting.
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