One hundred years ago, Thomas Gainsborough’s The Blue Boy (1770) became the most expensive painting in the world when American collectors Henry and Arabella Huntington purchased the masterpiece for ...

There's a face-off at the Huntington Museum of Art near Los Angeles. The contenders are Thomas Gainsborough's 18th-century painting Blue Boy and Kehinde Wiley's very 21st-century Portrait of a Young ...

In the spring of 2018 the Hamburger Kunsthalle is mounting Germany’s first large-scale monographic exhibition on the English painter Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788), concentrating on his role as a ...

Next Jan. 25, exactly 100 years later, “The Blue Boy” will again be shown at the National Gallery, on loan (until May 15, 2022) for the first time ever from the Huntington Library, Art Museum and ...

The Painter's Daughters Chasing a Butterfly (1756, detail) by Thomas Gainsborough - DeAgostini Thomas Gainsborough first painted his beloved daughters Molly and Peggy when they were aged six and five, ...

Eighteenth-century portraitist and landscape artist Thomas Gainsborough's most recent retrospective reaffirms for a new generation his sturdy place in the mainstream of British art history. Born in ...

The corner of southeastern England where Suffolk meets Essex is called “Constable country,” but before John Constable immortalized its green vales and shifting skies, this was Thomas Gainsborough’s ...

LONDON, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Thomas Gainsborough's 18th century painting "The Blue Boy" goes on show at London's National Gallery this week, 100 years after it was bought and shipped from Britain to the ...

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18.5 x 10 cm. (7.3 x 3.9 in.) perhaps John Constable, 1776–1837, introduction by R. B. Beckett, Manchester City Art Gallery, April to June 1956 This small sheet, which at one time was tipped into an ...

The Huntington commissioned the artist, best known for his portrait of Barack Obama, to create a large-scale painting in response to the Thomas Gainsborough masterpiece. By Sarah Bahr Growing up in ...