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The celebrated 18th-century England portrait painter Thomas Gainsborough got an early start to his career. At the ripe age of 13, he left Sudbury, Suffolk, to study his chosen craft in London.

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, ...

SAN MARINO, Calif. (KABC) -- The Huntington Art Museum's "Blue Boy" is back on display after an extensive cleanup - but the gallery is closed for the pandemic and visitors are not allowed. Even a ...

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There’s a mystery unfolding at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. It involves a boy, a dapperly-dressed preteen who’s lived all his life in the public eye but whose true ...

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 portraits and landscape paintings of Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) are among the cornerstones of 18th-century British art. His work distinguishes itself through the vivacity and individuality ...

Thomas Gainsborough "Margaret Gainsborough: the Artist's Wife" (c.1777), oil on canvas, 766 x 638mm, The Courtauld Gallery, London (Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons) Success! Your account was ...