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Portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Thomas Gainsborough

Portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Thomas Gainsborough

In the era of the reign of Queen Victoria in London lived a certain Adam Worth – a fraudster, a thief, but an imposing man and an incorrigible romantic. In the subordination of Worth was a well-organized team of small bandits, with the help of which the owner became richer daily. One evening in the evening of May 1876, Adam Worth and two of his accomplices through the window penetrated the Thomas Agnew Gallery in London’s Old Bond Street and pulled out the famous portrait of Georgiana, the Duchess of Devonshire, a brush by Thomas Gainsborough.

The charming Georgiana was, by the way, the great-great-great-grandmother of Princess Diana and the lady of pretty free mores. The portrait at the time of the theft was already sold at auction, it just did not have time to send it to the new owner. Worth cut out the canvas from the picture, elegantly rolled it into a tube and was like that. But “Georgiana” played a thief with a thief in return.

Adam Worth wanted to exchange Gainsborough’s canvas for the release of his younger brother from prison, but it just so happened that he was released soon after the kidnapping of the picture without Worth’s involvement. Looking at the portrait, Worth… fell in love with the charming Georgiana and for many years did not part with her image: he even slept, putting a portrait under the bed. Only in 1901, perishing from lack of money, Adam Worth decided to return the “beloved” to her rightful owner and a year later died. Everyone who knew Worth had no doubt that he had not been parted from Georgiana.

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