Sotheby’s halted the sale of a Winslow Homer painting with an estimated value of $150,000 last week after a complaint that it had been stolen. The claim came from Simon Murray, a descendant of Sir Henry Arthur Blake, whose children were the subjects of the 1885 work, Children Under a Palm Tree. Blake, then governor of the Bahamas, reportedly was given the watercolor by the artist.

The painting had been stolen in the 1980s in Ireland and then found on a trash heap, according to Murray. It was unearthed on the BBC program Antiques Roadshow, where it was identified as a work by Homer.Although the painting was withheld from sale, Sotheby’s says it will hold on to the work until the house receives "documentary evidence" that it was stolen.

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