Portrait of the Duke of Wellington (Goya)

Recovered in 1965. Goya's portrait was stolen from the National Gallery in London in 1961, 19 days after it went on display. Four years later Kempton Bunton, a Newcastle man campaigning for free television licenses for pensioners, contacted a newspaper, and the painting came back through a baggage check office at Birmingham New Street station. At trial he was found not guilty of stealing the painting but guilty of stealing the frame, which had not been returned; the theft itself is now credited to his son, John. It is the rare case with a light side: the James Bond film Dr. No referred to it, and the theft and trial were later dramatized in The Duke.