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| | Andover Academy Returns Stolen Shepherdess Needlework to Maker's Descendant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Thomas learned from Betty Ring, who was researching an essay for an exhibition at the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Andover Academy, that his mid-18th century needlework by Hannah Phillips depicting a shepherdess sitting in a landscape with her swain, had been given to the gallery. |
 | | Hannah Phillips, who made the needlework, was an ancestor of Brooks Thomas who is also related to the founders of Phillips Academy. |
 | | The head of the gallery, the head of the school, and Andover's lawyers, verbally and in writing maintained that since neither the school nor the gallery had done anything wrong in acquiring the gift, it was Andover's to keep. |
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