But then the painting, worth several million dollars, had already changed hands several times. The Parsonage Garden at Newhand in Spring was initially stolen from the Dutch town of Lauren to the southeast of Amsterdam. The thief smashed through two glass doors at the Singer Museum with a sledgehammer at the start of the Coronavirus lockdown. It had been on loan from a museum in the northeastern city of Groningen, which had hailed the work's recovery as wonderful news