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Before its departure to California in 1922, The Blue Boy was briefly put on display at the National Gallery in London, where it was seen by 90,000 people. The British recognized the loss of Gainsborough's painting in several notable ways including its appearance on stage towards the end of the Mayfair and Montmartre variety show at the New ...
Cornard Wood, near Sudbury, Suffolk is a 1748 landscape painting by Thomas Gainsborough, now in the National Gallery, London, which bought it in 1875.The title has been used since 1828 and derives from a 1790 print of a Gainsborough work, though it is unproven whether the church tower in the background can be identified with that at Great Cornard, Suffolk.
The Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1770. Oil on canvas 70 in × 48 in (180 cm × 120 cm) Pinkie owes part of its notability to its association with the Gainsborough portrait The Blue Boy. According to Patricia Failing, author of Best-Loved Art from American Museums, "no other work by a British artist enjoys the fame of The Blue Boy."
Mr and Mrs Andrews is an oil on canvas portrait of about 1750 by Thomas Gainsborough, now in the National Gallery, London.Today it is one of his most famous works, but it remained in the family of the sitters until 1960 and was very little known before it appeared in an exhibition in Ipswich in 1927, after which it was regularly requested for other exhibitions in Britain and abroad, and ...
Gainsborough's House in Sudbury, England. Gainsborough's House is the birthplace of the leading English painter Thomas Gainsborough. [1] [2] It is now a museum and gallery, located at 46 Gainsborough Street in Sudbury, Suffolk, England. [3]
Portrait of Gainsborough Dupont by Thomas Gainsborough, now in Tate Britain Dupont has been speculated to be the subject of "The Blue Boy" (1770) by Thomas Gainsborough. [ 1 ] Gainsborough Dupont (20 December 1754 – 20 January 1797) was a British artist, the nephew and pupil of Thomas Gainsborough , R.A.
Thomas Gainsborough RA FRSA (/ ˈ ɡ eɪ n z b ər ə /; 14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker.Along with his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds, [1] he is considered one of the most important British artists of the second half of the 18th century. [2]
The Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1770 Pinkie by Thomas Lawrence, c. 1794. The European collection, consisting largely of 18th- and 19th-century British & French paintings, sculptures and decorative arts, is housed in The Huntington Art Gallery, the original Huntington residence.