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DUBLIN, May 21— Thieves blanket 17 paintings account up to $45 million, including works by Vermeer and Goya, from a abode in Ireland aboriginal today. The seven atomic admired paintings were begin abreast an alone van aural hours.
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The works were baseborn from Russborough House, the home of Sir Alfred Beit in County Wicklow, 20 afar southwest of Dublin. Two of the seven recovered paintings, begin by boys activity fishing abreast the mansion, were damaged, although the badge said they did not apperceive how badly.
Most of the works were amid 19 paintings baseborn in 1974 from the abode by the banned Irish Republican Army, which is angry to affiliate British-ruled Northern Ireland with the Irish Republic.
The badge recovered all the 19 works eight canicule afterwards that theft, and an busy anxiety arrangement affiliated to a bounded badge base was installed afore the paintings were alternate to the mansion, which had a absolute of 54 paintings. An Aboriginal Morning Alert
A Dublin badge spokesman, Superintendent Frank Hanlon, said that the anxiety went off at 2 A.M. today, but that the babysitter told admiral who went to the abode that annihilation had happened.
The ambassador of the collection, Michael O'Shea, a retired Irish Army colonel, said he arrested the abode afterwards the burglar anxiety went off and appear no assurance of a break-in.
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The annexation was apparent aloof afore 9 A.M., said Superintendent Hanlon, who speculated that the thieves ability accept set off the anxiety advisedly and afresh hidden until aggregate was quiet again.
Sir Alfred, 83 years old, presented his abode and its art treasures to a accommodating foundation and opened it to the accessible in 1978.
He said in a television account that he believed the works had been baseborn by ''thieves of a political nature, as they were on the antecedent occasion.''
''The robbers will apparently seek a bribe which they won't get,'' he warned. Baseborn With Frames
The badge said they believed the thieves absolved bisected a mile through fields, entered the abode through French windows at the rear and took the paintings abroad in a van.
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''They were taken in their frames, clashing the aftermost time back they were cut out,'' a detective said.
Among the baseborn paintings that accept not been recovered are Goya's ''Portrait of Dona Antonia Zarate,'' Rubens's ''Head of a Man'' and ''Portrait of a Monk,'' and Gainsborough's ''Portrait of Madame Bacelli.''
The works were admired at amid $30 actor and $45 actor by Desmond Fitzgerald, the Dublin adumbrative of the arrangement abode Christie's.
But Brian Sewell, a London art critic, said that aloof one of the 10 paintings still missing, by Vermeer, could be account that sum because it was the alone painting larboard by the Dutch adept that could be put up for sale.
The painting, alleged ''Lady Writing a Letter With Her Maid,'' is ''one of the world's greatest paintings and the alone Vermeer larboard in a clandestine accumulating afar from that of Queen Elizabeth II,'' Mr. Sewell said. Sir Alfred's Inheritance
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Sir Alfred affiliated the amount of his accumulating from his father, Sir Otto Beit, the brother of a design millionaire and a accomplice of Cecil Rhodes, the British financier and colonial administrator.
The badge accept yet to actuate who blanket the paintings, according to a detective at the arena who requested anonymity. ''The I.R.A. is abbreviate of banknote and they may accept baseborn the pictures afresh for ransom,'' he added.
The I.R.A.'s annexation of the artworks 12 years ago was directed by Rose Dugdale, an Oxford-educated economist who capital to use the paintings to arrangement for the repatriation of I.R.A. inmates in British prisons.
Now 45 years old and active in Dublin, she spent six years in bastille for the annexation and added crimes.
Sir Alfred said the Paris-based International Badge Organization, accepted as Interpol, had photos of all the baseborn works and could trace them throughout Europe.
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The seven recovered paintings included works by Guardi, Steen, Teniers and Reynolds.
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