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 SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - A 17th century Dutch painting valued at more than $1 million was stolen from an Australian state gallery during viewing hours over the weekend, and police suspect an inside job, officials said Thursday.
"A Cavalier" by Baroque-era artist Frans van Mieris, disappeared from a small room in the Art Gallery of New South Wales. An oak panel painted in oil, the picture depicts a man believed to be the artist seated on a chair and dressed in a feathered hat and frilled sleeves.
"I am deeply shocked," gallery director Edmund Capon said. "Well over a million people visit the gallery each year and this is a very rare occurrence."
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