‘The Blue Boy’ is back in London after 100 years. Painted by British artist Thomas Gainsborough in 1770, the portrait will go on display at the National Gallery, exactly a century after it was last shown publicly in London
LONDON, Jan 24 - 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 United States.
"'The Blue Boy' is not only one of the most famous pictures by Gainsborough, I think it's one of the most famous pictures in British art altogether," Gabriele Finaldi, the National Gallery’s director, told Reuters.The painting had hung at the gallery for three weeks in the winter of 1922 before crossing the Atlantic Ocean after it was bought by U.S. railroad magnate and art collector Henry E. Huntington from the Duke of Westminster.
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