Editing Burrell Collection (section)

==Claims for Nazi-looted art==
During the 1930s and 1940s, many artworks came onto the market as a result of forced auction sales of works belonging to Jewish collectors by the Nazis. Burrell acquired works from a number of dealers during this time. Although he was not aware of it at the time, subsequent research shows that a number of works originated from forced sales.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bellamy & MacDonald |title=Sir William Burrell: A Collector's Life |publisher=Birlinn |year=2022 |isbn=9781780277608 |pages=142–3}}</ref> Following the establishment of the UK government's [[Spoliation Advisory Panel]] in 2000, Glasgow Museums listed works from the Burrell Collection on the official spoliation website whose provenance had gaps between 1933 and 1945. This has enabled two cases to be successfully resolved by the Spoliation Advisory Panel:

* A still life by [[Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin|Chardin]] from the sale of the stock of A. S. Drey, a Jewish-owned gallery in Munich. The panel agreed in 2004 that the painting had been subject to a forced sale and that it should be restituted to its rightful owners. The heirs accepted an ''ex gratia'' payment of £10,000 from Glasgow City Council and the painting remains in the collection.<ref>{{cite web |title=Report of the Spoliation Advisory Panel |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/report-of-the-spoliation-advisory-panel-a-painting-now-in-the-possession-of-glasgow-city-council |website=Report of the Spoliation Advisory Panel}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Boztas |first=Senay |date=24 November 2002 |title=Looted Art |url=https://lootedart.com/news.php?r=MOAJEL279401}}</ref>
* A Swiss early 16th-century tapestry, ''The Visitation'', from the collection of [[Emma Budge|Emma Ranette Budge]], a Jewish art collector from Hamburg, The panel concluded in 2014 that Burrell's acquisition was the result of a forced sale. Glasgow City Council agreed to make an ''ex gratia'' payment to Budge's Estate that reflected the current market value of the tapestry. In consideration of this payment, Budge's Estate released any claim over the tapestry and it remains in the collection.<ref>{{cite report |title=Report of the Spoliation Advisory Panel: Tapestry fragment in the Burrell Collection |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/report-of-the-spoliation-advisory-panel-in-respect-of-a-tapestry-fragment-in-the-burrell-collection-glasgow-city-council |publisher=[[Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport]] |isbn=978-1-4741-1189-8|date=27 November 2014 |access-date=29 March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=13 August 2015|title=Burrell Collection payment over Nazi-looted tapestry|publisher=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-33912057|access-date=12 March 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Miller |first=Phil |date=7 August 2015 |title=Glasgow to pay compensation to family whose Burrell Collection art was lost to Nazis |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13582839.glasgow-to-pay-compensation-to-family-whose-burrell-collection-art-was-lost-to-nazis/ |access-date=12 March 2021 |website=HeraldScotland |quote=Glasgow is to pay compensation that could run into tens of thousands of pounds to the heirs of a Jewish woman after a tapestry in the Burrell Collection was found to have been plundered by the Nazis. The fragment in the world-famous art collection was part of a Nazi 'forced sale' from a Jewish widow in the 1930s.}}</ref>