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An Exeter University art historian has solved the 70-year mystery over the theft of an original oil sketch, by Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck, from a stately home in Northamptonshire.

“Spiegeltent” is Flemish for “mirror tent,” and the structures first came to prominence in Belgium around 1900 when they were used as traveling dance halls at town fairs.

But something tells me our battered mood will see a winner in something like gifted ironist Nicolas Keppens’ “Beautiful Men,” a quirky tale of three balding Flemish brothers visiting foggy Istanbul for hair transplants.

A spectacular, 26-foot-wide Flemish “Tapestry of the Astrolabes,” hanging for centuries in a cathedral in Toledo, Spain, gives an indication.

Two Flemish nationalist parties are poised to gather the largest shares of votes in Flanders, with the far-right Vlaams Belang, which backs independence for Flanders, is expected to win more than 25% of the vote.