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100 years after leaving the UK, find out why 'The Blue Boy' remains one of the nation's favourites. Christine Riding, The Jacob Rothschild Head of the Curato...
The Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough is one of the most famous British paintings, and it is back in the UK's national gallery after spending a century in the ...
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Mar 27, 2020 · The restoration of "The Blue Boy" by Thomas Gainsborough is complete. As we await Blue Boy's public unveiling, Christina Nielsen reflects on the project.
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Jan 12, 2022 · Will the publicity surrounding his National Gallery homecoming—and Kehinde Wiley’s recent portrait in response to the great Gainsborough painting—amp up Blue Boy mania? If so, it’s unlikely to take the form of ashtrays and teapots; think memes, TikTok challenges, ironic action figures, and Pez dispensers instead.
May 15, 2022 · 100 years after leaving the UK, find out why 'The Blue Boy' remains one of the nation's favourites. Christine Riding, the Jacob Rothschild Head of the Curatorial Department and Curator of British Paintings, explains all in this short talk about ' Gainsborough's Blue Boy ': This is a YouTube video player.
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.
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Jan 21, 2022 · In 1922, the year that Gainsborough's painting found a new home in the US, Cole Porter performed his musical Mayfair and Montmartre, in which Nelly Taylor dressed as Blue Boy and...
