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This is a Toad-themed reproduction of Gainsborough's oil painting The Blue Boy. [19] The Blue Boy painting is a heavily-used prop in the 1929 Laurel and Hardy comedy Wrong Again. The painting is also referenced in the movie Coraline as a portrait in the Pink Palace's hearth room.
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."
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.
Huntington Art Museum officials are overruling their own conservation experts' advice by lending the fragile painting to Britain's National Gallery. Commentary: 'The Blue Boy' is returning to London.
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]
A painting valued at $15,000 just two years ago is now expected to fetch up to $18 million at auction after being identified as the work of the Dutch master Rembrandt.
On "Antiques Roadshow," a young boy brought in a watercolor painting that he paid just two dollars for at a small junk auction in south New Jersey.. Thinking that the painting would maybe worth a ...
The most famous paintings, especially old master works created before 1803, are generally owned or held by museums for viewing by patrons. Since museums rarely sell them, they are considered priceless. Guinness World Records lists Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa as having the highest insurance value for a painting.