The Blue Boy is a full length oil on canvas portrait by the English artist Thomas Gainsborough, painted around 1770 and owned by the Huntington in San Marino, California. Although both the painting and its creator are well known, the identity of its subject remains disputed.
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Year CreatedCirca; Wikipedia gives no more precise year than c. 1770. LocationThe Huntington, San Marino, California 1 Medium
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Painted by Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1770.
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Portrait by Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1770.
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It is owned by The Huntington in San Marino, California.
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from c. 1770
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The Blue Boy is a full-length oil on canvas portrait in oil by English artist Thomas Gainsborough
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It is owned by The Huntington in San Marino, California.
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It is a historical costume study as well as a portrait; the youth appears in clothing from the 17th century as the artist's homage to Anthony van Dyck and is very similar to van Dyck's portraits of young boys, especially his double portrait of brothers George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, and Lord Francis Villiers.
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The Blue Boy is a full-length oil on canvas portrait in oil by English artist Thomas Gainsborough, from c. 1770.
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