‘Incorrigible’ thief jailed after stealing Van Gogh painting from museum

The Van Gogh painting The Parsonage Garden At Nuenen In Spring 1884 was stolen from the Singer Laren museum east of Amsterdam (Peter Dejong/AP)

An “incorrigible and calculating criminal” has been convicted of stealing a painting by Vincent van Gogh and another by Frans Hals from Dutch museums last year, and sentenced to the maximum eight years in prison.

Neither of the paintings, each worth several million euros, has been recovered.