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{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)PRIZE PAINTING TAKEN FRIDAY "Portrait of Night" Stolen from Art Academy, Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 24.— A modern counterpart of Vincenzo Peruggia, who stole the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911, was sought by police here today as the thief who cut the prize-winning canvass, Portrait by Night, from its frame in the Academy of Fine Arts and escaped unnoticed. With four swift strokes, the vandal slashed the picture from its frame, rolled it under his overcoat and sauntered past three guards to the street. Police said they believed the man a crank because he selected this particular picture rather than one of the many more valuable canvasses in the Academy. The canvass, awarded the valued Walter Lippincott prize this year, was painted by Hilda Belcher, N«w York artist and illustrator, who sold it to the Academy for about $2,000. It portrayed a girl basking in the reflection of a fireplace.