$5 Million Reward for Recovery Rembrandt’s “The Storm on the Sea of Galilee”
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee (1633, Oil on canvas) 160 × 128 cm (62.99 × 50.39 in). Rembrandt van Rijn
Boston, MA—When two men dressed as Boston police officers made off with 13 works of art valued at $500 million from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990, it was an art theft of unusual and shocking scale. Now the Federal Bureau of Investigations has announced it will mount a similarly ambitious effort to retrieve the paintings, offering a $5 million reward for their recovery in a billboard campaign along Interstates 93 and 495 in Massachusetts.
The signs, which are being displayed free of charge by Clear Channel Outdoor as part of a public service campaign, feature Rembrandt’s much-missed 1633 painting The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, the telephone number for the FBI’s tip line (get rich!: 617/742-5533), and the Web site of the Gardner Museum. “It’s just another way to get information out to the public,” FBI spokeswoman Gail Marcinkiewicz told the Boston Globe.
In total, the thieves behind the caper purloined three Rembrandts, a Vermeer, a Flinck, five Degas sketches, a Manet, a Chinese beaker, and the eagle from on top of a Napoleonic flag. It is widely considered to be the priciest case of property theft in U.S. history.
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