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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 ...
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]
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.
Creating a National Collection: The Partnership between Southampton City Art Gallery and the National Gallery (Southampton City Art Gallery, 2021) ISBN 978-1838469900 Christine Riding, Gainsborough's Blue boy: the return of a British icon (National Gallery Company, 8 February 2022), with contributions by Susanna Avery-Quash, Melinda McCurdy ...
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 ...
The boy in the picture is based on Thomas Gainsborough's painting The Blue Boy. It was modelled by Yeames's nephew, James Lambe Yeames. Behind the boy, there is a girl, probably the daughter, waiting her turn to be questioned. The girl was based on Yeames's niece, Mary Yeames.
Karel Dujardin (1626–1678) (Art UK): A Woman and a Boy with Animals at a Ford (Art UK), A Woman with Cattle and Sheep in an Italian Landscape (Art UK), Farm Animals in the Shade of a Tree, with a Boy and a Sleeping Herdswoman (Art UK), Portrait of a Young Man (Art UK), Sheep and Goats (Art UK), The Conversion of Saint Paul (Art UK)