"It is often paired with a painting by Thomas Lawrence called ""Pinkie"" which sits opposite to it at the Huntington Library. The Blue Boy The Blue Boy (1779) is a full-length portrait in oil by Thomas Gainsborough, now in the Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Perhaps Gainsborough's most famous work, it is thought to be a portrait of Jonathan Buttall (1752–1805), the son of a wealthy hardware merchant, although this has never been proven. It is a historical costume study as well as a portrait: the youth in his seventeenth-century apparel is regarded as Gainsborough's homage to Anthony van Dyck,"
"enjoys the fame of ""The Blue Boy"".” ""Pinkie"" and ""The Blue Boy"" are often paired in popular esteem; some gallery visitors mistake them for contemporary works by the same artist. The two were created by different painters a quarter century apart, however, and the dress styles of the subjects are separated by more than one hundred and fifty years. Jonathan Buttall, who posed for Gainsborough's portrait, wears a period costume of the early seventeenth century as an homage to Flemish Baroque painter Anthony van Dyck, whom Gainsborough held in particular esteem. Sarah Moulton wears the contemporary fashion of 1794. The"
"bought from him in 1946, with funds given by Mrs. Julian Bobbs, in memory of William Ray Adams. The Boy (Modigliani) The Boy is an oil painting by Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani created in 1919. It is currently part of the permanent collection at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. The portrait is of an unknown male youth, sitting at a chair, his left elbow on a table, and his head resting on his palm. ""The Boy"" is a typical Modigliani portrait. The boy's face is elongated into an oval, his eyes are hollow and without pupils. He wears a blue"
"Little Boy Blue (poem) ""Little Boy Blue"" is a poem by Eugene Field about the death of a child, a sentimental but beloved theme in 19th-century poetry. Contrary to popular belief, the poem is not about the death of Field's son, who died several years after its publication. Field once admitted that the words ""Little Boy Blue"" occurred to him when he needed a rhyme for the seventh line in the first stanza. The poem first appeared in 1888 in the Chicago weekly literary journal ""America"". Its editor, Slason Thompson, changed the penultimate line (""That they have never seen our"
"The Boy (Modigliani) The Boy is an oil painting by Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani created in 1919. It is currently part of the permanent collection at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. The portrait is of an unknown male youth, sitting at a chair, his left elbow on a table, and his head resting on his palm. ""The Boy"" is a typical Modigliani portrait. The boy's face is elongated into an oval, his eyes are hollow and without pupils. He wears a blue shirt, that seems to blend him into the background. His cheeks are rosy and youthful, which contrasts with"
"1809, ""The Blue Boy"" entered the collection of the Earl Grosvenor and remained with his descendants until its sale by the second Duke of Westminster to the dealer Joseph Duveen in 1921. By then it had become a great popular favourite in print reproductions, after being exhibited to the public in various exhibitions at the British Institution, Royal Academy and elsewhere. In 1919, the painting inspired German film producer Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau to create his debut film (""The Boy in Blue""). In a move that caused a public outcry in Britain, it was then sold to the American railway pioneer"
"""The Blue Boy"" which Huntington had bought the previous year. Duveen had promised the artist that Huntington would commission a portrait of himself. He did not. Müller-Ury liked California and after painting Archbishop Edward Joseph Hanna in San Francisco in 1923 decided the following year to erect a studio near Huntington's estate. The studio he built was at the corner of Monterey and Shenandoah Roads in San Marino (architect Carleton Winslow), in the fashionable Spanish style with a green tiled roof and in the studio an enormous north-facing window. He placed the Muller coat-of-arms on the east frontage, where it"
"Several later variations painted by Willard have been exhibited around the country (including in the United States Department of State). Of note, he used his father, Samuel Willard, as the model for the middle character of the painting. Hugh Mosher was the model for the fifer. The boy was Henry Devereaux. Willard developed the painting from a sketch, which included three men dancing and singing. He also made several other works of art, including ""The Blue Girl"", ""Pluck"", and others not as recognized. Archibald Willard Archibald MacNeal Willard (August 22, 1836 – October 11, 1918) was an American painter who"
"residence. The permanent installation also includes selections from the Arabella D. Huntington Memorial Art Collection, which contains Italian and Northern Renaissance paintings and a spectacular collection of 18th-century French tapestries, porcelain, and furniture. Some of the best known works in the European collection include ""The Blue Boy"" by Thomas Gainsborough, ""Pinkie"" by Thomas Lawrence, and ""Madonna and Child"" by Rogier van der Weyden. Complementing the European collections is the Huntington's American art holdings, a collection of paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, and photographs dating from the 17th to the mid-20th century. The institution did not begin collecting American art until 1979,"
"The Blue Boy (picture book) The Blue Boy is a children's picture book by Martin Auer, with illustrations by Simone Klages. It was first published in 1991 in German as ""Der blaue Junge"". The Blue Boy lives on a war-torn planet. When his parents get killed he does not want to love anyone anymore, because he has cried so much that he has no more tears left. He declines the company of a little dog, an old woman, and a girl. Instead, he builds himself a giant armoured robot to travel around in and starts looking for someone who cannot"
"Blue Boy (novel) Blue Boy () is a 1932 novel by the French writer Jean Giono. It tells the story of a family in Provence, with an ironer mother and a shoemaker father. The book is largely autobiographical and based on Giono's childhood, although it has many fictional anecdotes. An English translation by Katherine A. Clarke was published in 1946. The novel was the basis for Marcel Pagnol's 1938 film ""The Baker's Wife"". The film stars Raimu, Ginette Leclerc and Charles Blavette. Pagnol's film was in turn adapted into the American musical ""The Baker's Wife"", which premiered in 1976. It"
"Portrait of a Man with a Blue Chaperon Portrait of a Man with a Blue Chaperon (or Portrait of a Man with a Blue Hood, earlier Portrait of a Jeweler or Man with a Ring) is a very small (22.5 cm x 16.6 cm with frame) oil on panel portrait of an unidentified man attributed to the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck. The painting was commissioned and completed sometime around 1430. It contains a number of elements typical of van Eyck's secular portraits, including a slightly oversized head, a dark and flat background, forensic attention to the small details"
"L'Oiseau bleu (Metzinger) L'Oiseau bleu (also known as The Blue Bird and Der Blaue Vogel) is a large oil painting created in 1912–1913 by the French artist and theorist Jean Metzinger (1883–1956); considered by Guillaume Apollinaire and André Salmon as a founder of Cubism, along with Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. ""L'Oiseau bleu"", one of Metzinger's most recognizable and frequently referenced works, was first exhibited in Paris at the Salon des Indépendants in the spring of 1913 (cat. no. 2087), several months after the publication of the first (and only) Cubist manifesto, ""Du «Cubisme»"", written by Jean Metzinger and Albert"
"Picasso's Blue Period The Blue Period () is a term used to define the works produced by Spanish painter Pablo Picasso between 1901 and 1904 when he painted essentially monochromatic paintings in shades of blue and blue-green, only occasionally warmed by other colors. These somber works, inspired by Spain and painted in Barcelona and Paris, are now some of his most popular works, although he had difficulty selling them at the time. This period's starting point is uncertain; it may have begun in Spain in the spring of 1901 or in Paris in the second half of the year. In"
"the 1795 Royal Academy summer exhibition. According to an official Huntington Library publication: The painting was one of the last acquisitions of California land developer Henry E. Huntington in 1927. In 1934 the Huntington foundation constructed a new main gallery as an addition to the former residence for the collection's major portraits. Except for brief intervals during travelling exhibitions, ""Pinkie"" has hung there since that time. ""Pinkie"" owes part of its notability to its association with the Gainsborough portrait ""The Blue Boy"". According to Patricia Failing, author of ""Best-Loved Art from American Museums"", “no other work by a British artist"
"blue in the same way as the paintings of Backer and Haverman. This fading is possibly due to the use of a faded yellow lake pigment. A Vase of Flowers (1716) A Vase of Flowers is a 1716 floral painting by the Dutch painter Margaretha Haverman. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This work was acquired as part of the initial purchase in 1871 of 174 paintings bought in Europe by William Tilden Blodgett, one of the museum's initial donors and trustees. It is signed and dated ""Margareta Haverman fecit / A 1716"". Little is"
"Little Boy Blue"") to its present form. The poem was republished by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1889 in Field's ""The Little Book of Western Verse"". In 1976, Frank Jacobs wrote a parody of the poem for ""Mad"" magazine. An 1891 song setting of Field's poem by composer Ethelbert Nevin (1862–1901) was made popular by tenor John McCormack. A spoken-word recording (with accompaniment) was also made by Wink Martindale and it appears on his ""Deck of Cards"" album. <poem> The little toy dog is covered with dust, Time was when the little toy dog was new, And that was the time"
"on the canvas before beginning ""The Blue Boy"", which he painted over. The painting is about life-size, measuring wide by tall. Gainsborough painted the portrait in response to the advice of his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds, who had written: It ought, in my opinion, to be indispensably observed, that the masses of light in a picture be always of a warm, mellow colour, yellow, red, or a yellowish white, and that the blue, the grey, or the green colours be kept almost entirely out of these masses, and be used only to support or set off these warm colours; and"
"he's learned"". The original was also translated into Japanese. An American English translation was published 1992 by Macmillan. Martin Auer first wrote the story for the German television series ""Siebenstein"" (ZDF). It was then published in book form by Beltz & Gelberg. The story is also part of the collection ""The Strange War"" by Martin Auer that has been translated in more than 25 languages. The Blue Boy (picture book) The Blue Boy is a children's picture book by Martin Auer, with illustrations by Simone Klages. It was first published in 1991 in German as ""Der blaue Junge"". The Blue"
"Blue-Eyed Black Boy Blue-Eyed Black Boy is a 1930 one-act play by Georgia Douglas Johnson, one of the earliest African-American playwrights and an American poet that was a member of the Harlem Renaissance. The play opens in the kitchen of Mrs. (Pauline) Water’s kitchen, as she sits in a large rocking chair with her foot on a low stool, bandaged. Her daughter, Rebecca Waters, comes out to show her mother her wedding dress that she is working on. She is engaged to be married to Thomas Grey, a doctor who happens to be the one tending to Pauline’s injured foot."
"The Son of Man The Son of Man () is a 1946 painting by the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte. It is perhaps his most well-known artwork. Magritte painted it as a self-portrait. The painting consists of a man in an overcoat and a bowler hat standing in front of a low wall, beyond which are the sea and a cloudy sky. The man's face is largely obscured by a hovering green apple. However, the man's eyes can be seen peeking over the edge of the apple. Another subtle feature is that the man's left arm appears to bend backwards"
"The Boy in Blue (1986 film) The Boy in Blue is a 1986 Canadian drama film directed by Charles Jarrott and starring Nicolas Cage. The film, which was written by Douglas Bowie and co-produced by Steve North, John Kemeny, and Dennis Heroux, was distributed by 20th Century Fox. The filming took place in Quebec and Ontario, Canada, which was eventually released for North American theatres on January 17, 1986. The story is based on a true story about the life of Toronto sculler Ned Hanlan. This drama follows Ned Hanlan (Nicolas Cage), who is known to be a Canadian competitive"
"a suspect in Paris for its theft — 30 December - Italy returns ""Mona Lisa"" to France — 23 September - Aviator Roland Garros flies over the Mediterranean L'Oiseau bleu (Metzinger) L'Oiseau bleu (also known as The Blue Bird and Der Blaue Vogel) is a large oil painting created in 1912–1913 by the French artist and theorist Jean Metzinger (1883–1956); considered by Guillaume Apollinaire and André Salmon as a founder of Cubism, along with Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. ""L'Oiseau bleu"", one of Metzinger's most recognizable and frequently referenced works, was first exhibited in Paris at the Salon des Indépendants"
"The Blue Kitchen The Blue Kitchen (Norwegian: Det blå kjøkken; dated 1913) is the title of a neo-impressionist painting by Norwegian artist Ludvig Karsten, showing a kitchen table ready for breakfast, while the morning sun is shining through the window. ""The Blue Kitchen"" is regarded among Karsten's most important paintings. It is located at the National Gallery in Oslo. In 1913 Karsten was newly married, and the couple moved from Copenhagen to the Norwegian island Hvasser. Sources differ whether ""Blue Kitchen"" is painted in Copenhagen or Hvasser. The painting was bought by art collector Christian Tetzen-Lund in 1913. In his"
"for £130,000 by the dealers Thomas Agnew & Sons, apparently as agents for the National Gallery, to whom it soon belonged. It was purchased with a ""Special Grant from the Exchequer"" and contributions from the Pilgrim Trust, The Art Fund, Associated Television Ltd, and Mr and Mrs W. W. Spooner. This was still below the $621,000 paid in 1921 by Henry Huntington to Joseph Duveen (about £148,000 at the time) for ""The Blue Boy"", and seemed ""cheap"" to Gerald Reitlinger, writing in 1970, before art prices began to escalate to their present levels. The painting is in good condition, and"
"Henry Edwards Huntington for $728,800 (£182,200), according to Duveen's bill, a then-record price for any painting. (According to a mention in ""The New York Times"", dated 11 November 1921, the purchase price was $640,000, which would be over $8.5 million in 2014.) Before its departure to California in 1922, ""The Blue Boy"" was briefly put on display at the National Gallery where it was seen by 90,000 people; the Gallery's director Charles Holmes was moved to scrawl farewell words on the back of the painting: ""Au Revoir, C.H."". It was this painting that moved pop artist Robert Rauschenberg toward painting."
"a ""Van Dyke"" was popular; Gainsborough's ""The Blue Boy"" is wearing such a ""Van Dyke"" outfit. In 1774 Derby porcelain advertised a figure, after a portrait by Johann Zoffany, of ""the King in a Vandyck dress"". A confusing number of different pigments used in painting have been called ""Vandyke brown"" (mostly in English-language sources). Some predate van Dyck, and it is not clear that he used any of them. Van Dyke brown is an early photographic printing process using the same colour. When van Dyck was knighted in 1632, he anglicized his name to Vandyke. The British Royal Collection, which"
"The School Boy ""The School Boy"" is a 1789 poem by William Blake and published as a part of his poetry collection entitled ""Songs of Experience"". These poems were later added with Blake's ""Songs of Innocence"" to create the entire collection entitled ""Songs of Innocence and of Experience Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul."" This collection included poems such as ""The Tyger,"" ""The Little Boy Lost,"" ""Infant Joy,"" and ""The Shepherd (Blake)."" These poems are illustrated with colorful artwork created by Blake first in 1789. The first printing in 1789 consisted of sixteen copies. None of the"
"The Blue Room (Picasso) The Blue Room () is a 1901 painting by Pablo Picasso painted during his Blue Period. It was found to have a different painting hidden under it using X-ray technology in 2014 by a group of art historians and scientists from the Phillips Collection in Washington, assisted by scientists from the Cornell University High Energy Synchrotron Source. In ""The Blue Room"" we can see Picasso’s blue period being fully developed. His cool hues and strong use of natural light draw the viewer in to see this young idealized woman bathing in a tub in what we"
"Water, and the Boy abducts a bird at the Rich man, but during a pursuit breaks together with it from a tower of hours. There comes morning. The boy wakes up in the tiny apartment, and it becomes clear that all this was a dream. Together with the sister they rise by an attic and set the Bluebird of happiness free. The Blue Bird (1970 film) The Blue Bird () is a 1970 Soviet animated feature film based upon the play by Maurice Maeterlinck. It was directed by Vasily Livanov and made at the Soyuzmultfilm studio. It uses a mix"
"Craft"", (1935) ""Blue Blood"", (1926) and ""Blue-Eyed Black Boy"", (1935). Being particularly difficult to be heard as a Black female writer, Johnson has written at least two short stories under the pseudonym, Paul Tremaine. Today, Johnson's work is not as commonly known. It could be due to the absence of her work in literary anthologies and inaccessibility of her books which were out of print until 1971 when they were added to The Black Heritage Library Collection. Blue-Eyed Black Boy Blue-Eyed Black Boy is a 1930 one-act play by Georgia Douglas Johnson, one of the earliest African-American playwrights and an"
"matching outfits to the painting. Raymond Jolliffe (later Baron Hylton) also wore the same as a pageboy at Lord Lovat's wedding in 1938. In 1967, the painting appeared on a British postage stamp. The Red Boy The Red Boy is the popular name of a portrait made in 1825 by Sir Thomas Lawrence. It was originally entitled Master Lambton and depicts Charles William Lambton, the eldest son of John Lambton (later created Earl of Durham). Charles William Lambton was born 16 January 1818, the eldest son of John Lambton, who was then a Member of Parliament for County Durham, and"
"The Red Boy The Red Boy is the popular name of a portrait made in 1825 by Sir Thomas Lawrence. It was originally entitled Master Lambton and depicts Charles William Lambton, the eldest son of John Lambton (later created Earl of Durham). Charles William Lambton was born 16 January 1818, the eldest son of John Lambton, who was then a Member of Parliament for County Durham, and his second wife Louisa. He was baptised on 12 February 1818 at St Mary and St Cuthbert, Chester-le-Street, which at the time was the parish church of his family home, Lambton Castle. He"