landscape by British artist Richard Parkes Bonington (Richard Parkes Bonington) «Ebb. Boulogne", estimated at 200 thousand dollars, it was established in 1824. The collection of the gallery is small, measuring 22 x 18 cm, the picture in which there is no signature, no date came in early last century.

In Australia, all occurred in the state museums of thefts, which were confirmed or suspected, report directly to the Minister of Finance, Robert Clark (Robert Clark). However, members of the board of trustees of the gallery just last year, after a 12-year search, the minister and the police about the alleged theft.

In 1999, a collection of galleries, there are 65 of his works, was removed from the museum building at the time of restoration. On the way to work Bonington was lost, but for some reason, the curators had to wait four years before to notify the trustees Board. The Board of Trustees, in the hope that the picture there, I decided that it was necessary to make an inventory of the collection. Only eight years later this process museum workers were finally convinced that the picture is still gone, they recently went to the police, and the image of the work was placed in an international database of missing Works of Art International Art Loss Register. After this information has come at last to the Australian Treasury. After 12 years of fruitless searches the message director of the gallery Minister sound strangely uncertain: "It is suspected that the picture of the state collection, previously considered lost, stolen. In probably in a museum, this picture is missing. "Apparently, the director still has some doubts about it.

Prepared by Mary Estrova, AI