Stolen Wicklow paintings worth up to €200,000 recovered

Three valuable paintings that were stolen from a house in Wicklow last year have been recovered, after a man cutting a hedge found them discarded in a black bag.

The works — Paul Henry’s Landscape with Cottage, Portrait of a Lady by John Lavery, and Jack B Yeats’ The Fern in the Area — were stolen on October 22 last year in a burglary at a house in Donard, Co Wicklow.

Yesterday, gardaí confirmed all three paintings had been recovered. No arrests were made and gardaí say that their investigations are continuing.