{"id":336239,"date":"2026-09-02T19:40:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T19:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/336239\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T19:40:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T19:40:49","slug":"news-12-long-island-209","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/336239\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Long Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Two paintings stolen from New York galleries nearly 50 years ago have been returned to their rightful owners with help from a Connecticut auction house a pair of sharp eyes on Long Island.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Shannon&#8217;s Fine Art Auctioneers in Milford helped recover the Eastman Johnson paintings &#8220;Mary and Her Lamb&#8221; and &#8220;The Young Mother,&#8221; which were stolen from New York galleries in 1978.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The paintings disappeared from Kenneth Lux Gallery and Hirschl &amp; Adler Galleries and remained missing for decades.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The breakthrough came when Long Island antiques dealer Brandon Levine recognized the paintings in an estate collection and contacted Shannon&#8217;s owner Sandra Germain.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">After reviewing an online catalogue raisonn\u00e9 for Eastman Johnson&#8217;s work, Levine and Germain found records showing both paintings had been reported stolen in 1978.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Germain then contacted the Art Loss Register, which confirmed the information.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Shannon&#8217;s and Levine worked with the family that inherited the paintings and helped arrange for their return to the rightful owners.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">One painting was returned to Hirschl &amp; Adler Galleries, while the descendants of gallery owner Kenneth Lux were located and reunited with the second work.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Experts say the two paintings could be worth as much as $200,000 combined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two paintings stolen from New York galleries nearly 50 years ago have been returned to their rightful owners&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-336239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}