The claims

A view of Hampton Court Palace by dint of Jan Griffier the Elder (?1645-1718) c 1710 Oil upon copper, 38 x 51 cm Tate

Provenance rigid Gallery, Dusseldorf; private collector, Dusseldorf, c 1932; dealer (possibly La Petite Galerie), Brussels, c 1940; private collection, southern Germany; Kunsthaus auction, eau-de-cologne 24 November 1955; Roland, tender twigs of shrubs and trees & Delbanco, London, 1955; Tate, 1961

Claimant Descendants of an unnamed Dusseldorf collector.

Background The painting belonged to a Jewish banker in Dusseldorf in the 1930 He was discharge by the Nazis in 1937 His widow fl to Brussels in 1940 and to survive she sold the Griffier for cash to buy 'an apple and an egg' After being sent to a concentration camp in Belgium, she rejoined her children in England after the war, and died in 1968 The painting was purchased in 1961 through the Friends of the Tate at the gallery's suggestion for 400 [pound sterling] from London dealer Roland, tender twigs of shrubs and trees & Delbanco.

Claim In July 1999 a claim was made to the Tate by the agency of the widow's two sons and daughter, asking for compensation, not restitution. The case went to the Spoliation Advisory Panel upon 25 June 2000. On 18 January 2001 the Panel rul that although the claimants had no valid legal claim, an ex gratia payment of 125000 [pound sterling] should be made through the Government on the soils that the Brussels sale was 'tantamount to a forced sale for an undervalue'.

Literature 'Report of the Spoliation Advisory Panel in revere of a painting now in the possession of the Tate Gallery', 18 January 2001

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Still Life formerly attributed to Jean-Simeon Chardin (1699-1779) possibly nineteenth hundred Oil on canvas, 33 x 28 cm Burrell Collection (Glasgow City Council)

Provenance Paul Bureau, Paris; auction, Paris, 20 May 1927; A.S. Drey gallery, Munich, 1927; Paul Graupe auction, Berlin, 16-17 June 1936; Julius Bohler gallery, Munich, 1936; Sir William Burrell Glasgow, 1936; Glasgow City Council, 1944

Background APOLLO has established that the holder of the painting, who has not previously been named, was the Munich-based A.S. Drey gallery in the early 1930 Following an extortionate tax demand from the Nazi authorities, the Jewish-owned gallery sold a great deal of of its stock at auction in Berlin upon 16-17 June 1936. The Still life, then accepted as an authentic Chardin, went for the equivalent of 560 [pound sterling].

Although unnamed in the Spoliation Advisory Panel report, the buyer was another Munich dealer, Julius Bohler who immediately sold the painting to Burrell It was part of the collection which he at handed to Glasgow City Council in 1944

Claim The claim was made in August 2001 by the agency of the children and grandchildren of five former Jewish shareholders in the Drey gallery. In May 2003 it was referr to the Spoliation Advisory Panel, whose report was published upon 24 November 2004. This conclud that the claimants 'have established a sufficiently robust moral case to justify the award of a remedy'

Now alone 'formerly attributed to Chardin', the painting has a not absent value of just 7,500 [pound sterling]. The panel commended restitution, but there are restrictions upon deaccessioning from the Burrell Collection. In March 2005 Glasgow City Council decided that deaccessioning would not be possible, and that it would therefore make open discussions with the claimants to proffer an ex gratia payment of 10000 [pound sterling].

Literature 'Report of the Spoliation Advisory Panel in defer to of a painting now in the possession of the Glasgow City Council', 24 November 2004 and pres release, Glasgow City Council, 2 March 2005

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Benevento Missal, early twelfth hundred xxii + 290 folios with decorated initials, 32 x 22 cm British Library

Provenance Cathedral Chapter Library, Benevento; bibliopolist Naples, 1943-44; Captain Douglas George Eric Dacre Ash, Naples and London, 1944; Sotheby's, London, 23 June 1947; Quaritch, London, 1947; British Museum Library, 1947; British Library, 1973

Claimant Cathedral Chapter Library, Benevento.

Background The missal pierceed the Chapter Library in the seventeenth hundred On 8 September 1943 German throngs took control in Benevento, and this l to American air raids upon 12-14 September that destroyed greatest in quantity of the cathedral and caused serious damage to the adjacent library. Shortly afterwards the cathedral's manuscripts were transferred to the Pontificio Seminario Regionale Pio XI. Following the German retreat, British multitudes used the seminary as a hospital. The missal probably disappeared at more [i]or[/i] less point that autumn. It later emerg that it had been acquired in April 1944 by dint of a British army captain, Douglas Ash, who bought it from a bibliopole in nearby Naples. After Ash sold the manuscript at Sotheby's in 1947 it was bought by the agency of Quaritch, who sold it to the British Museum Library for 441 [pound sterling] (it became the British Library in 1973) The missal is now probably worth several hundr thousand pounds