17th-Century Painting Recovered; 2 Arrested
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s detectives Tuesday arrested two Lancaster men on suspicion of stealing a 17th-Century Dutch oil painting worth at least $50,000 from a gallery at Antelope Valley College and recovered the painting.
Detectives serving a search warrant found the painting in an apartment in the 43300 block of Gadsden Avenue in Lancaster, Deputy Cory Kennedy said. They arrested Timothy Cain, 27, and Jerald Sharitz, 23, both residents of the apartment, Kennedy said.
The painting by the Dutch neoclassicist Gerard Hoet, “Nymphs Gathering Flowers in a Landscape,” was apparently removed from a gallery wall at the school in Lancaster on Nov. 6 and simply carried out of the building, where an exhibit of European masters was being staged, authorities said.
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