In 1961, a man snuck into London’s National Gallery and stole Francisco Goya’s painting of the Duke of Wellington. The theft and the Bunton family are the subject of a new film, “The Duke,” directed by the late Roger Michell and opening today in U.S. theaters following a successful U.K. run. Jim Broadbent as Kempton Bunton in “The Duke.” “The …
The bus driver who confessed to stealing a Goya masterpiece Alamy In 1961, a portrait by the artist vanished from the UK's National Gallery. But in November 1965, a 61-year-old retired bus driver from the Northern English city of Newcastle upon Tyne stood up in London's Central Criminal Court and declared that he had taken the painting. Alamy At the …
