Nazi-looted Goudstikker painting found in SS commander's family home

A long-lost painting looted by Nazis from Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker has surfaced in the Netherlands home of the granddaughter of Dutch SS commander Hendrik Seyffardt, according to art detective Arthur Brand.

The artwork, "Portrait of a Young Girl" by Dutch artist Toon Kelder and created in the early 1900s, bears a label from Goudstikker's collection on its back, along with the number 92 etched into the frame. That number matches an entry in the catalog of a 1940 auction of Goudstikker's looted holdings, where the painting was sold to Seyffardt. Goudstikker fled Nazi-occupied Netherlands for Britain that year but died aboard ship, leaving behind more than 1,000 artworks. Much of the collection was seized by Nazi leader Hermann Göring and dispersed through sales.

Brand tracked the painting after a descendant of Seyffardt, who recently learned of his family's Nazi ties and name change after World War II, tipped him off. The relative confronted Seyffardt's granddaughter, who showed him the piece hanging in her hallway and called it "Jewish looted art, stolen from Goudstikker. It is unsellable. Don't tell anyone," Brand recounted.

The family member, expressing remorse to...