Kempton Bunton was known as an eccentric Newcastle resident prior to the theft. Kempton Bunton (played by Jim Broadbent) hid Francisco de Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington in his home away ...

Based on a true story, Bunton allegedly broke into the National Gallery in London, pilfered Francisco Goya’s Portrait of the Duke of Wellington, then hoofed it back to his home in Newcastle ...

London — In 1961, a man snuck into London’s National Gallery and stole Francisco Goya’s painting of the Duke of Wellington. Kempton Bunton, a retired bus driver from Newcastle, returned the ...

Although the action, for the most part, takes place in gritty, working-class Newcastle, and the events it depicts are loosely based on fact, “The Duke” exists in a kind of twee parallel ...

"The Duke" is a genial retelling of the true story of Kempton Bunton (Jim Broadbent), who in 1961, was tried for the crime of stealing a Goya painting of the Duke of Wellington, valued at £ ...

In his native Newcastle, Kempton had started a campaign ... a rich American art collector the painting painting Portrait of the Duke of Wellington for the sum of £140,000 or £3million today.

Wellington is remembered as the conqueror of Napoleon and as one of Britain's finest soldiers, despite starting life as a violin-playing Anglo-Irish aristocrat. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of ...