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The Blue Boy
The portrait The Blue Boy was painted around 1770 by English portrait and landscape painter Thomas Gainsborough. The oil painting on canvas, which measures 70 by 48 inches is one of Gainsborough's best-known works and was hailed as a masterpiece when it was first exhibited in 1770 at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
~~~Thomas Gainsborough practiced- 3 genres of painting ~~~portrait, landscape, and fancy picture
~~~The critics and appraisals of Gainsborough's work by collectors, artists, and connoisseurs have varied markedly within short periods of time. In the years around 1900, with late Victorian taste still dominant, his portraits were prized.
~~~The purchase in 1921 of The Blue Boy by the art dealer Joseph Duveen (1869-1939) recorded the highest price paid for a painting ever, and his subsequent sale of the picture to the railroad magnate Henry E. Huntington (1850-1927) caused much uproar in the United Kingdom. After World War I the English public and press mourned the exportation of The Blue Boy as a symbol of their decline in fortune. They found in the painting "something of the courtly grace and serene carriage of a people who knew themselves a great people."
~~~It is now housed in The Huntington Library, Art Collections ~~ Henry E. Huntington donated his Art collection to a Museum in a Los Angeles suburb called San Marino immediately south of Pasadena and only minutes from downtown Los Angeles.
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