Cliff Schorer* recently located a missing painting by Dutch master Hendrick Avercamp after finding an image of it online on an $18 throw pillow. Last year, Schorer used a reverse image search engine to find an image of Winter Landscape with Skater and Other Figures, stolen in 1978 and now worth around $10 million, on the print-on-demand website Pixels.com. By looking at the metadata of the Pixels.com image, Schorer was able to determine that it was taken years after the famous theft. Schorer traced the painting to a sale at a European art fair in 1995 under the name of Barent Avercamp, the artist’s nephew and student. The painting was sold to a Dutch couple, who have since died... [continue reading on Art News].
*Cliff Schorer is the Worcester Museum of Art's former board president, the museum where it was originally supposed to have been donated to.
