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Thomas Gainsborough: The Blue Boy

Artist



Description	British painter, engraver and drawer
Date of birth/death	14 May 1727	2 August 1788
Location of birth/death	Sudbury	London
Work location	Sudbury, London, Ipswich, Bath
Authority file	: Q192720 VIAF: 29542582 ISNI: 0000000108830621 ULAN: 500115200 LCCN: n79055449 NLA: 35109328 WorldCat

Title

The Blue Boy

Object type

painting

Genre

portrait

Depicted people

Jonathan Buttall

Date

circa 1770

Romanticism (second half of 18^th century–first half of 19^th century)

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 179.4 cm (70.6 in)

; width: 123.8 cm (48.7 in)

Collection

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

	Native name	The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens
	Location	San Marino (United States)
	Coordinates	34° 07′ 45″ N, 118° 06′ 45″ W
	Established	1928
	Website	www.huntington.org
	Authority file	: Q1400558 VIAF: 147236009 ISNI: 0000000419369238 ULAN: 500293829 LCCN: n79049138 NLA: 36201470 WorldCat

Accession number

21.1 (The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens)

Place of creation

England

Object history

1771: in collection of Jonathan Buttall
1796: in collection of John Nesbitt
1796: sale of the collection of
1802: in collection of John Hoppner
1809: in collection of Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster
1921: in collection of The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
1921: in collection of Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen

Exhibition history

Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly
National Gallery, 1922

References

Authority file

Source/Photographer

The Yorck Project (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. ISBN: 3936122202. Category:PD-Art (Yorck Project)

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This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:

This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1931.

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