WEBVTT - Who Was Jacob de Gheyn III and Why Do People Keep Stealing His Portrait? 0:00:02.320 --> 0:00:06.000 Welcome to Criminalia, a production of Shonda Land Audio in 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:16.720 partnership with I Heart Radio. Detective Inspector Jason Barber from 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:20.000 the Flying Squad, a branch of the London Police, called 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:25.960 the novemberteen robbery at dull Ch Picture Gallery quote an 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:30.080 audacious attempt to steal two Rembrandt paintings and that it 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:35.000 was clearly planned an advance. The suspect had his eye 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:38.000 on two paintings that were part of Rembrandt's Light, an 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:41.480 exhibit of thirty five of the Dutch masters paintings, etchings 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:45.640 and drawings, but fled without the works after being confronted. 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:49.680 While a gallery spokesperson declined to identify the two paintings 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:53.880 which had been briefly taken, they never actually left the building, 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:57.920 so they did state that Rembrandt's portrait of Yakota Guy 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:03.760 in the third was definitely not involved, So why would 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:06.919 she bother pointing that out? Well, there have been eighty 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:10.600 one thefts of Remembrandt paintings during the last one hundred years, 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:14.959 eighty one that have been publicly disclosed, that is, and 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:18.200 that figure also does not include Rembrandts stolen by the 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:21.679 Nazis during the Second World War. This makes the Dutch 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:26.480 artist the second most stolen artist in history. He ranks 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:29.240 behind Picasso, who can boast as many as one thousand, 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:34.800 one forty seven stolen works. Rembrandt painted during the seventeenth century, 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:37.200 and as part of his completed work, she'll find a 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:39.960 portrait of a man named Yakob Dega in the third, 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:44.160 an engraver who commissioned the painting. The portrait of Jacob 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:46.440 Dega in the Third, as it's titled, has since been 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:50.680 nicknamed the Takeaway Rembrandt. And that's because it's been stolen 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:56.400 so many times, and each from the same gallery, all 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:59.440 between the mid nineteen sixties and the early nineteen eighties, 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:02.880 each time for a different reason, and each time in 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:08.880 a different fashion, but still four times. Welcome to Criminaliot, 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:12.360 where it's art heist season. I'm Maria tram Marquis and 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:16.120 I'm Holly Fry. So let's talk about the famous Dutch 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:20.760 artist who created this work first. Today, Rembrandt is considered 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:23.919 one of the greats, one of the masters, and some 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:27.359 would call him the greatest Dutch painter in history. He 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:30.839 created more than six hundred paintings, many of which are 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:35.080 highly recognizable works, including The Night Watch, The Return of 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:38.160 the Prodigal Son and The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:42.760 and he had significant influence on other painters, both during 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:47.560 his lifetime and long after his death. Born on July fifteen, 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:51.519 sixteen o six, in Leightden, Netherlands, Rembrandt Harmon zu and 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:54.880 van Rin, also known to us best simply as Rembrandt, 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:57.960 was the son of Harmon Garretts von Rin a Miller 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:01.680 and Nukian von zoitber Okay. He was the youngest son 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:05.760 of at least ten children. It was not, as a consequence, 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:08.040 expected or assumed that he was going to carry on 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:12.360 his father's business. Since the family was prosperous and able 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:15.600 to give their children good educations, Rembrandt was sent to 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:19.600 the Leightden Latin School. He enrolled briefly at the University 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:24.880 of Leiden, possibly to study theology. His goal at university 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:28.120 is actually unclear, and that's not just because the historical 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:31.960 record is unclear. It's because he actually really wanted to 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:35.240 study art and not any of the other options available 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:40.600 to him. Jan Jansun Orler's Rembrandt's first biographer, reported that 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:43.480 quote by nature, he was moved towards the art of 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:47.960 painting and drawing. Rembrandt left his studies at the university 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:51.880 to instead study the fundamentals of painting with Lighten artists 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:56.640 Yakob Isaac's van Swanenburg. After three years with von Swannenberg, 0:03:56.680 --> 0:04:00.680 in sixteen twenty four, Rembrandt left for amsterday Him and 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:04.240 there he studied under the Dutch painter Peter Lastman for 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:09.320 about six months. Rembrandt returned to Lyden and quickly developed 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:13.800 a reputation as a history painter and portraitist. By sixty eight, 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:17.039 his work was praised by Sir Constantine Higgens, a Dutch 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:20.440 Golden Age poet and composer as well as secretary to 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:23.960 two Princes of Orange. He was also known as a 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:26.920 chronicler of his times, as well as for his belief 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:31.840 in the importance of gossip. Higgins It said, after a 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:35.760 visit to rembrandt Lyden studio in sixteen twenty nine, remarked 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:39.680 on the artist's ability to convey feeling through gesture and expression, 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:42.960 and through dramatic contrasts of light and dark in his art. 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:47.320 That same year, Rembrandt, then aged twenty two, took on 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:52.000 his first pupils, including Garrett dow and Isaac Youderville. Documents 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:55.760 indicate that Youderville paid Rembrandt one guilders a year to 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:58.560 study with him. The Dutch guilder, for those of us 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:00.520 who may not be so familiar with it, was the 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:03.880 currency of the Netherlands from twelve fifty two until two 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:06.119 thousand and two, when it was replaced by the Euro. 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:10.640 After a few years in Leiden, in sixteen thirty one 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:14.680 or possibly sixteen thirty two, Rembrandt moved to Amsterdam, where 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:18.479 he started to paint portraits of people professionally. He was 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:21.440 now a well known portrait artist and ran an active 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:24.840 art studio that specialized in portrait commissions with Dutch art 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:29.640 dealer Hendrik van Eilenberg. Along with commissioned portraits, Rembrandt also 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:33.360 painted more than forty self portraits and portraits of his family. 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:37.200 Van Eilenberg was a key player in the Dutch art market, 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:40.560 and in sixteen thirty four the men became both business 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:45.159 partners and family when Rembrandt wed Van Eisenberg's niece, Saskia. 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:50.000 It was shortly after moving to Amsterdam when Rembrandt began 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:52.680 to paint his work, the portrait of Jakob de Gay 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:55.200 in the third. It's a little early, but we're going 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:57.520 to take a break for a word from our sponsor now, 0:05:57.640 --> 0:05:59.640 and then we will talk about the commission of the 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:02.200 piece and what this painting looks like when we return. 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:19.960 Welcome back to Criminalia. In sixteen thirty two, yakoba In 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:22.480 the third commissioned the work that went on to become 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:26.680 the most stolen artwork in the world. How strange would 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:29.320 that feel if he were alive today to know about that? 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:34.520 Probably pretty strange. Yakov de Gayne the third was a 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:38.080 Dutch Golden Age engraver in the Hague who also produced 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:41.719 some drawings and a limited number of paintings. He was 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:44.719 a canon as in, a clergyman of St. Mary's in 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:47.920 the city of Utrecht and a contemporary of Rembrandts, who 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:51.719 became Cardinal of Utrecht, and as we're about to talk about, 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:55.279 he was also the subject of this now famous oil 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:59.159 painting by Rembrandt. In sixteen thirty two, he and his 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:03.760 friend Reets Higgens commissioned similar companion portraits from ren Brant. 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:07.120 The guy In and Hygens were close friends while living 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:10.320 in the Hague, where Hygens was secretary to the Council 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:13.560 of State and administrative body under the States General of 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:18.160 the Republic. The artist and these two men were previously acquainted, 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:22.360 and de Guine owned some of Rembrandt's paintings. The sitters 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:26.040 in their portraits were similar clothing. Imagine if you will, 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:30.280 black doublets and rough style, and they face an opposite direction. 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:34.400 This is kind of like the ultimate Bestie portraits set. 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:37.000 It's sort of cute when you know that that's how 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:41.840 they commissioned these. There is, though, one big difference in 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:44.720 these portraits, and that is that one of them has 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:52.240 been stolen a lot. These paintings are actually small scale 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:56.040 works for Rembrandt, who was known for his life sized portraits. 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:59.800 The Degune is oil painted on a wooden panel that's 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:04.920 just about ten by twelve inches or thirty by That 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:09.240 small size, say some experts, is attractive to thieves because 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:12.720 it's easy to hide. It's easier to hide during the getaway. 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:15.600 It's easier to hide when you're waiting to fence it. 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:19.120 It's just easy to put it somewhere. This portrait of 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:22.160 Degne depicts him as a young man with long hair 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:25.160 and a mustache, dressed in a dark cape with a 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:31.600 white collar. Following Rembrandts painting techniques characteristic of his early portraits, 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:35.160 Jacob's face is softly modeled, with a range of breaststrokes, 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:38.400 and some are applied more thickly than others. Cream and 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:42.800 pink colors brighten up his sunlit face. Rembrandt is quoted 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:46.120 as having said once a painting is complete when it 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:51.440 has the shadows of a god. Despite Rembrand's reputation and 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:56.000 that the men were friends, the portrait was criticized in 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:59.960 a poem by Sir Constance hin Higgens, who also happy 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:04.280 to be the brother of portrait sitter Maurice Higgins, whom 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:07.840 were referred to earlier as a big fan of Rembrandt's work, 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:13.080 felt this depiction actually bore little resemblance to Degne. He 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:17.000 stated he admired the painting, though, but wrote quote, if 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:21.000 Degne's face had happened to look like this, this would 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:26.240 have been an exact portrait of Degune. That's harsh. Well, 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:30.240 what do critics know anyway, regardless of how spot on 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:33.199 the portrait is or is not. In two thousand six, 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:36.960 Guinness World Records awarded Rembrandt's portrait of Jakob Degaine the 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:40.960 third the title of most Stolen Painting after it had 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:44.360 been stolen four times from the Dullich Picture Gallery in London, 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:50.040 first in nineteen sixty six, then in ninety three, again 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:53.880 in nineteen eight one, and finally, well, perhaps we hope 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:58.600 finally in nineteen eighty three. The painting has been recovered 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:02.040 each time it's gone missing, and recovered in a variety 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:06.240 of unexpected places, including in a luggage rack, on the 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:10.360 back of a bicycle, in a cab, and even underneath 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:14.400 the bench in street um. The Dulach Picture Gallery opened 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:16.840 in South London in the beginning of the nineteenth century 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:20.679 as the world's first gallery space created to display art 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:24.400 for the public. It's a small space and was designed 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:28.079 by architect Sir john Stone, originally to house the nearby 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:32.199 Dulach College's collection of paintings by the Old Masters, including 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:36.440 work by Rembrandt, as well as Rubens, Gainsboro and canaletto 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:40.720 The Italian, French, Flemish, Dutch and Spanish schools of painting 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:46.400 were all very well represented. The guying bequeathed his portrait 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:49.360 to Maury T Higans upon his death, and the paintings 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:52.840 remained together for many years. That's sort of another cute 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:55.480 story of how they were best but I know and 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:59.440 the and then after they were both dead, like the 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:01.800 families still kept it. They're like, no, we loved, we 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:04.320 loved Yakum who stays on the wall of us. Yes. 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:09.120 After Marit's death in sixteen forty two, most believe that 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:12.320 the portraits remained in the Hygens family, and then emerged 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:14.960 once again in the record of a sale at auction 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:19.040 to an Allered Rudolph von Vai in February of seventeen 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:23.160 sixty four. Between seventeen eighty six and eighteen eleven, the 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:26.040 painting was again sold at auction as well as through 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:29.319 private sale, though it did not open its doors to 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:33.160 the public until eighteen seventeen. The dull edch acquired the 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:36.160 Divine in eighteen eleven at the bequest of Sir Peter 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:40.760 Francis Bourgeois, who likely acquired it sometime after eighteen o four. 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:44.439 Bourgeois was a court painter to George, the third King 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:46.880 of Great Britain and of Ireland, and went on to 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:51.559 become an art dealer and collector. Today, though these companion 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:55.559 portraits remain apart, the Degune still hangs in the dull 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:58.320 Arch Picture Gallery in London, and the portrait of Maurits 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:02.840 is now in the Kunstella Humber. We're going to take 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:05.000 a break for a word from our sponsor right now, 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:08.280 and when we're back we will talk about the wends 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:26.040 and house of each attempt to steal the decigne. Welcome 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:30.280 back to Criminalia. Let's talk about each time the takeaway 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:36.160 Rembrandt was taken. So the Takeaway Rembrandt, as it's become known, 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:39.960 was first stolen more than three hundred years after it 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:42.840 was painted. It was taken as part of a bigger 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:46.120 heist involving the theft of eight old masters from the 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:50.280 dull Arch Picture Gallery in South London overnight on December. 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:55.120 Thieves used a drill and embrace to remove a panel 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:58.320 from an oak door at the dull Edge. Once inside, 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:01.480 they removed Rembrandt's painting of yakobd Gain the Third, as 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:03.960 well as two other Rembrant works, a Girl at the 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:08.000 Window and Portrait of Titus. The thieves also took three 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:11.480 pictures by Rubens, including three Women with a cornucopia St. 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:15.000 Barbara and the Three Graces A Lady playing on the 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:18.480 Clavichord by Garrett Dow and a painting by Adam Elzheimer 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:22.520 titled Susannah and the Elders also were taken. All the 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:25.680 missing works, valued between an estimated one and a half 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:31.920 million and three million pounds, were eventually recovered safely. Michael Hall, 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:34.520 aged thirty two, the only one of the thieves to 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:37.160 be caught for the caper, was sentenced at the Old 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:39.760 Bailey to five years in prison. It took a team 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:42.880 of twenty one detectives to recover the stolen works, but 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:44.800 they did so and within a couple of days of 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:48.839 the theft, following a tip off, several paintings were found 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:51.600 wrapped in brown paper underneath the bush in the rookery 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:55.480 in Strutham Common. Hall later claimed that seven works were 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:58.400 stolen to order at the request of a Polish couple 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:01.960 who offered a hundred thousand pound owns Fortnum. He claimed 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:05.120 an English collector of Rembrandts had offered him thirty thousand 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:09.880 pounds for the artist's portrait of Yako Degne alone. After 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.280 his release from prison in nineteen seventy, Hall returned to 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:15.480 the gallery to offer advice on security upgrades and holes, 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:18.719 sharing that trip wires, for instance, should be fixed to 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:22.640 the backs of works and wired to an alarm. The museum, 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:26.120 though well, they failed to take any of this advice, 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:29.040 and the devine went on to be stolen and recovered 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:35.120 multiple more times. Sometimes you learned lessons the hard way. 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:39.120 Sometimes you have to. The second Degagne heist happened in 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:42.560 February of nineteen seventy three, when a visitor to the 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:46.320 dull Arch Picture Gallery just simply took the painting off 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:49.240 the wall, stuffed it into a plastic bag, and then 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:53.560 calmly exited the building and then rode off on his bicycle. 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:57.400 Investigators asked people to look for a man on a 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:01.640 bicycle carrying a Rembrandt painting at a shop bank. That 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:04.720 is not really a description. You'd hear a lot, uh, 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:08.160 And within minutes Norman Rutton, who was aged twenty four, 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:12.240 was arrested and the artwork was recovered. If you see 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:15.320 a guy on a bike with a Rembrandt, stop him, please. 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:24.120 Eight years later, and that's so, that's August of between 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:27.360 two and four thieves, depending on the reports that you read, 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:31.200 entered the Dulache Picture Gallery around noon on a Friday. 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:34.560 I gotta say these daytime heists are super amazing. To 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:37.720 me anyway. While one or two of them distracted the 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:40.920 security guard, the others quickly snatched the pocket sized portrait 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:44.440 from the wall. It was reported that the painting was 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:50.600 still not wired the galleries alarm system, and that the 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:55.360 alarm system was switched on only at night anyway. Police 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:58.360 said after the incident that the thieves simply had to 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:02.840 unhook the painting from all and carry it off. Dullach 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:05.840 curator at the time, John Sharon, called the Rembrand a 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:10.920 priceless painting. Sharon said quote, it is an extremely well 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:14.120 known painting. It would be impossible to dispose of it 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:17.240 on the open market. It's more likely it was taken 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:20.480 by an art lover for himself or for a collector. 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:25.200 In this instance, though that wasn't the case. The thieves 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:27.640 had planned to blackmail the gallery for the return of 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:30.240 the painting. It's just that they got caught before they 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:32.720 had a chance to do so. They were apprehended in 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:35.320 a taxi where the work was wrapped in a pillow case. 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.280 The painting had been removed from its frame, but it 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:42.120 was not damaged. Chief Inspector Colin Evans reported that at 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:44.920 the time the men had been under surveillance for days 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:49.520 after this heist, the gallery spent roughly fifteen dollars on 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:52.720 extra and upgraded security measures. And I apologize I didn't 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:56.840 look to see what that was and pounds and then 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:01.720 it starts with we of some bad news, sir. The 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:04.800 Rembrandt is gone again. I never want to hear that. 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:10.320 Those are the words of investigating officer to Giles Waterfield, 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:15.280 the gallery director. In May of nine, despite a newly 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:19.600 upgraded security system, the takeaway Rembrandt had been stolen again 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:23.560 from the Dulach Picture Gallery, this time in a daring 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:27.159 heist that took the thieves through the gallery skylight. The 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:30.360 thieves scaled ladders to break into the building, smashing through 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:32.959 a skylight in the roof to gain access, and then 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:35.200 a second set of ladders were set in place for 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:39.040 the robbers to lower themselves into the art gallery. The 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:42.119 alarm was triggered shortly after one am when the thieves 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:45.240 used a crowbar to remove the Rembrandt and its frame 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:49.879 from the wall. Police, it's reported, arrived within three minutes 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:52.760 of that call. But the Degagne and whoever took it, 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:58.000 we're gone this time. It took three years for investigators 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:01.200 to recover the work and then on a tip on 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:05.800 October eighth, the painting was found in a box on 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:09.080 a luggage rack in a train station in a British 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:13.920 Army base in Munster, Germany. No arrests were ever made 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:17.680 for this Degagne theft. And yes, they left both sets 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:20.960 of ladders behind for the next pair of thieves to 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:26.399 come and take the right The museum gets back there painting, 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:28.840 and they got some ladders, and they got the ladders. 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:31.480 Finally they get a bonus on something. So since the 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:35.080 mid eighties you've seen the Degage stay in place, and 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:41.960 hopefully that's for good. That's a four times same place. 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:45.760 That's embarrassing. It is a little embarrassing. Yeah, would you 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:47.800 like some heist hoot? I think I would to get 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:59.760 over the embarrassment. This one's very fun, I think because 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:02.680 the thing that I couldn't stop thinking about was not 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:05.760 all of the thefts on this one. It was the 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:08.879 fact that the guy in and his BFF wanted to 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:12.120 have portraits making Alright, I thought so too. And I've 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:14.520 been saying and anyone who's listening doesn't know this yet, 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:17.280 but they're about to that. This is to me going 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:19.560 to the mall. You and your BFF are in the 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:21.640 photo booth and you're having your picture shy and you're 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:26.160 having a really good time, and then that particular photo 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:31.000 keeps getting stolen. Yeah, I mean that's the that's what happens. 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:33.119 When your portrait is only a little bigger than the 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:35.200 size of a piece of paper. Does it fit in 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:38.720 a shirt? It's probably gonna get stolen. So it made 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:41.359 me think about a drink that would be fun for 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:44.320 best friends to share. And I'm calling it the BFF. 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:47.160 And this is an interesting one because it's very cozy. 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:49.960 It starts with black tea and it's a hot one. 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:54.680 So I made basically the equivalent of two small cups 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:57.320 of black tea. I have a curing with the refillable 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:02.240 cartridge things, so I just it like about the equivalent 0:20:02.280 --> 0:20:04.560 of two tea bags into that and then made a 0:20:04.680 --> 0:20:08.480 thing of black tea. And then to that I added 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:13.119 an ounce of black spiced rum and an ounce of 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:16.120 shamboor if you don't have shambour, you can use another 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:20.560 raspberry liquor. But you want that nice, spicy and that sweet, 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:24.200 very round flavor that you get from the raspberry. I 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:28.360 also wanted a splash of demorra a syrup in mine, 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:30.760 which is like a darker sweet syrup. You can also 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:35.359 do simple syrup there. Then it becomes a marriage this 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:37.760 and a little bit of a borrow from an Irish 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:39.920 coffee because we're going to take a couple ounces of 0:20:40.000 --> 0:20:43.480 heavy whipping cream, put them in a separate container and 0:20:44.040 --> 0:20:45.800 whip it. You can do that by shaking it in 0:20:45.840 --> 0:20:48.639 a shaker. I recently, and let me recommend this to 0:20:48.800 --> 0:20:53.840 everyone on Earth. I recently, very inexpensively got a coffee frother, 0:20:54.080 --> 0:20:56.800 which is kind of like a tiny immersion blender. I 0:20:56.880 --> 0:20:59.280 think I paid fifteen bucks for it. It runs onto 0:20:59.400 --> 0:21:02.000 double a back matteries. They're very inexpensive. And let me 0:21:02.119 --> 0:21:05.560 tell you, the heavy whipping cream game is completely changed 0:21:05.640 --> 0:21:07.120 for me. I didn't know you didn't have one before. 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:08.600 I would have been like, hey, how to do this? 0:21:08.800 --> 0:21:11.640 It changes a few things. No, I have a bigger one, 0:21:11.720 --> 0:21:13.200 but I don't have a little one that I can 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:16.160 just do like first small amounts for cocktails or whatever. 0:21:16.240 --> 0:21:19.200 A little one makes a big difference. I added a 0:21:19.320 --> 0:21:21.639 little bit of sweetener to mine. You can do with 0:21:21.840 --> 0:21:24.600 or without. Heavy whipping cream has its own sweetness, so 0:21:24.680 --> 0:21:26.879 It just depends on your taste. And I got that 0:21:27.080 --> 0:21:29.440 very whipped up, and then I just spooned a little 0:21:29.560 --> 0:21:33.119 on top of the tea mixture, and then I sprinkled 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:36.560 a little bit of brown sugar and coconut sugar on 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:39.120 top of it, which is also brown. And you serve 0:21:39.200 --> 0:21:41.240 it like that and it looks very beautiful. But if 0:21:41.280 --> 0:21:43.399 you sip it in that state, you're going to get 0:21:43.440 --> 0:21:45.359 mostly the tea and just a little bit of the 0:21:45.400 --> 0:21:48.000 sweetness from the cream. But if you mix it all 0:21:48.080 --> 0:21:51.879 together as you're drinking, you get the warmest, coziest, yummiest, 0:21:51.960 --> 0:21:56.080 creamiest drink. It was very delightful, and it makes enough 0:21:56.119 --> 0:21:57.880 for two people. That's why I call it a drink 0:21:57.920 --> 0:22:01.040 that you can share. It's not a really strong drink 0:22:01.080 --> 0:22:04.560 in terms of alcohol content. So it is again you 0:22:04.680 --> 0:22:06.400 brew about a cup and a half of black tea 0:22:06.760 --> 0:22:09.840 and ounce of black spiced drum and ounce of shambor 0:22:10.040 --> 0:22:14.840 or another raspberry liqueur, a splash of Demora syrup or 0:22:14.880 --> 0:22:17.320 simple syrup, and give that a good stir together. You're 0:22:17.359 --> 0:22:19.480 not gonna shake that either. I did that in a 0:22:19.600 --> 0:22:23.720 glass mixing container, and then you're gonna take about two 0:22:23.920 --> 0:22:26.000 You could even do three ounces of heavy cream and 0:22:26.080 --> 0:22:28.119 whip it with or without sweetener, and then put it 0:22:28.200 --> 0:22:31.600 on top. Sprinkle a little brown sugar or coconut sugar 0:22:31.680 --> 0:22:35.480 on their delicious. You share it with your best friend, 0:22:35.800 --> 0:22:38.199 and that's why we're calling it the BFF. To make 0:22:38.280 --> 0:22:41.960 a non alcoholic version super easy, you're just gonna leave out, obviously, 0:22:42.119 --> 0:22:45.280 that black spiced drum. To make up that flavor gap. 0:22:45.520 --> 0:22:48.080 I would add some spices to the tea, maybe a 0:22:48.119 --> 0:22:50.520 little bit of nutmeg, maybe a little cinnamon, even a 0:22:50.560 --> 0:22:53.840 little cardamom, and then a little raspberry syrup in lieu 0:22:53.880 --> 0:22:56.680 of the liquor. And other than that, you're gonna you're 0:22:56.720 --> 0:22:58.520 all set. You can make it the normal way, and 0:22:58.600 --> 0:23:02.080 it's called BFF and it's meant for two, so you 0:23:02.160 --> 0:23:06.480 could share it with your BFF. The irony there is 0:23:06.560 --> 0:23:10.679 that neither my husband nor my best friend would want 0:23:10.720 --> 0:23:15.719 to drink this drink. My husband doesn't like hot beverages, 0:23:16.680 --> 0:23:19.640 and I don't think my best friend likes tea all 0:23:19.720 --> 0:23:22.280 that much. Bryan said, if I made a cold version, 0:23:22.359 --> 0:23:24.200 he would do into it. So there you go. You 0:23:24.280 --> 0:23:26.560 gotta try it. At least it could be great. Listen. 0:23:26.760 --> 0:23:29.680 I just I picture them drinking warm, yummy beverages and 0:23:29.760 --> 0:23:32.360 telling each other all their secrets and then going, oh 0:23:32.440 --> 0:23:34.639 my gosh, we should get our portraits hit me together. 0:23:37.520 --> 0:23:39.280 That's how I think of Yakov the guy in the 0:23:39.400 --> 0:23:42.840 third Yeah, I very much think of Yakov and Maurits 0:23:42.960 --> 0:23:46.800 as that as well. Just oh my gosh, this is 0:23:46.920 --> 0:23:50.800 the best idea. We're going to love it so hopefully 0:23:51.000 --> 0:23:53.720 that delights you, and the story of their friendship makes 0:23:53.760 --> 0:23:56.320 you giggle as much as it does us. We are 0:23:56.440 --> 0:23:58.320 so thankful that you're here with us this week, and 0:23:58.560 --> 0:24:00.359 we will be right back here again next week with 0:24:00.440 --> 0:24:04.640 another story of art theft and another hopefully yummy beverage. 0:24:16.200 --> 0:24:19.320 Criminalia is a production of Shonda land Audio in partnership 0:24:19.400 --> 0:24:22.960 with I Heart Radio. For more podcasts from Shonda land Audio, 0:24:23.280 --> 0:24:26.359 please visit the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or 0:24:26.400 --> 0:24:28.240 wherever you listen to your favorite shows.