in the United States. Circa 1911: Some of the finest of van Huysum's fruit and flower pieces were in English private collections: those of 1723 in the Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere's gallery; others of 1730–1732 in the collections of Henry Hope of Cavendish Square (Hope & Co. banking money), and Francis Baring, 5th Baron Ashburton and/or Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook (both Barings Bank money). Gallery The stolen Vase of Flowers The Vase of Flowers is a painting by van Huysum that was stolen from Italy by the retreating Wehrmacht in 1943. On July 19, 2019, German minister of foreign affairs Heiko Maas personally handed the picture to his Italian counterpart Enzo Moavero Milanesi in Florence and it was restored to the collection of the Uffizi. References Further reading Grant, Maurice Harold, Jan Van Huysum, 1682–1749, including a catalogue raisonné (1954) External links Includes biography and two pictures. Includes brief biography and one picture. Links to entries in numerous online museums and public art galleries. Dutch and Flemish paintings from the Hermitage, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Huysum (cat. no. 14) 1682 births 1749 deaths 18th-century Dutch painters 18th-century Dutch male artists Dutch male painters Dutch landscape painters Dutch still life painters Flower artists Painters from Amsterdam Huysum family of painters