If all goes according to plan, in January, he is poised to recover one of the most valuable stolen pieces: “Winter Landscape with Skater and Other Figures” by 17 th-century Dutch master Hendrick Avercamp. Until, that is, last year, when art collector Cliff Schorer started looking for the missing paintings. ![]() Nearly half a century later, only three of those artworks have been recovered. In all, someone had stolen 12 pieces of artwork-worth some $10 million today-from Stoddard’s house while he slept peacefully upstairs. And on it went, no matter where he cast his gaze. ![]() The Turner large-format watercolor was gone. Above the fireplace, where his wife’s beloved landscape painting by the Impressionist master once hung, was a blank spot. Stoddard scrambled downstairs into his living room. One morning in 1978, Robert Stoddard, a prominent Worcester businessman, and a former trustee of the Worcester Art Museum, emerged from the master bedroom of his stately home and noticed a fire poker leaning on the wall just outside the bedroom door. Many of the most valuable paintings stolen from the Stoddard family in the 1978 heist were intended gifts to the Worcester Museum of Art, pictured above.
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