What is The Blue Boy?
{{italictitle}} [[File:Thomas Gainsborough - The Blue Boy (The Huntington Library, San Marino L. A.).jpg|thumb|300px|''The Blue Boy'']] '''''The Blue Boy''''' is an [[oil painting]] by [[Thomas Gainsborough]]. It was painted about 1770. The boy in the picture might be Jonathan Buttall, the son of a [[Household hardware|hardware]] [[merchant]]. The boy wears a 17th-century suit. The painting is large. It is 48 inches (1,200 mm) wide by 70 inches (1,800 mm) tall. The painting belonged to Jonathan Buttall until 1796. It was then sold many times. In 1921 it was sold to an art dealer. An American bought the painting from the dealer. The portrait is now in the [[Huntington Library]], [[San Marino, California]]. ''[[Pinkie]]'' is a famous painting which hangs near it. == References == * Conisbee, Philip. ''The Ones That Got Away'', essay from ''Saved! 100 Years of the National Art Collection Fund'' (2003, ed. Richard Verdi). London: Scala * Conlin, Jonathan (2006). ''The Nation's Mantelpiece: A history of the National Gallery''. London: Pallas Athene * Tyler, David. ''Jonathan Buttall'' in the ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (2004). Oxford: Oxford University Press ==Other websites== {{Commons category-inline|The Blue Boy (Gainsborough)|The Blue Boy}} {{stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Blue Boy, The}} [[Category:1770s paintings]] [[Category:Paintings by Thomas Gainsborough]] [[Category:San Marino, California]]