Late baron’s ex-wife who owns 16th-century painting stolen 50 years ago refuses to return it — even though she ‘never really liked it’

She’s the artful dodger.

The ex-wife of a late British baron refuses to hand over a 16th-century painting that was stolen from an Italian museum more than 50 years ago — even though she “never really liked it.”

“Madonna and Child” by Antonio Solario was swiped in 1973 from the town of Belluno’s Civic Museum, which acquired it in 1872, before it was later purchased in good faith by Baron de Dozsa.

The painting hung in his Norfolk Tudor-style home called East Barsham Manor, which Henry VIII referred to as his “small country palace,” according to the Guardian.

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