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Wed 11 Nov 2002Dylan portrait taken in gallery raidA "true once-off" portrait of Bob Dylan by the Irish artist William Mulhall was stolen from a Dublin art gallery yesterday.Thieves smashed the front window of the Apollo Gallery in the city centre in the early hours of yesterday, seizing one object only, a portrait of Dylan painted on a large ceramic plate.