Row over €150k painting found in dump to be settled

A VALUABLE painting stolen from an historic Irish home in the 1980s may finally be returned to Ireland after a protracted legal row over its ownership comes to a head this week.

Row over €150k  painting found in dump to be settled

English tourist Tony Varney claims to have found Children Under a Palm Tree, a previously unknown water-colour by Winslow Homer (1836-1910), one of America’s most important 19th century artists, dumped near a rubbish tip in east Cork over 30 years ago.

Mr Varney said he found the painting, along with other works of art, while on a fishing trip on the River Blackwater near Youghal.

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