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The Blue Boy (c. 1770) is a full-length portrait in oil by Thomas Gainsborough, owned by The Huntington in San Marino, California. [2] History.
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."
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; Portrait of David Garrick; Thomas Linley; Sir Joshua Reynolds – Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney: The Archers; Alexander Roslin. Portrait of the artist's wife (Marie-Suzanne Giroust) Portrait of Prince Frederick Adolf of Sweden; George Stubbs. A Horse Frightened by a Lion (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool)
Thomas Gainsborough, The Blue Boy, c.1770, Huntington Library, San Marino, California Louis XIV of France and his family portrayed as Roman gods in a 1670 painting by Jean Nocret. [ 65 ] The first major native portrait painters of the British school were English painters Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Joshua Reynolds , who also specialized in ...
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Hilly landscape with peasant family at a Cottage Door, Children playing and Woodcutter returning The Woodcutters Return. Thomas Gainsborough was the first British artist to employ cottages as a major subject, [1] [2] in what has become known as his "Cottage Door" paintings, painted during the final decades of his life; and was in the vanguard of a late 18th century fad of interest in them.
The portrait is of an unknown male youth, sitting at a chair, his left elbow on a table, and his head resting on his palm. The Boy is a typical Modigliani portrait. The boy's face is elongated into an oval, his eyes are hollow and without pupils. He wears a blue shirt, that seems to blend him into the background.