#LADY IN BLUE DRESS BY GAINSBOROUGH SERIES#

The popularity and influence of the painting have made it an icon, which has been quoted by contemporary artists and referenced in Hollywood films.Īfter exactly 100 years, this exhibition reunites ‘The Blue Boy’ with the British public and with the paintings that inspired it.

It is a proud demonstration by Gainsborough of what painting can achieve. It is Gainsborough’s eloquent response to the legacy of Van Dyck and grand manner portraiture. ‘The Blue Boy’ represents the best of 18th-century British art.

#LADY IN BLUE DRESS BY GAINSBOROUGH SERIES#

Through a series of high-profile exhibitions, widely published reproduction prints, and countless copies by artists down the ages, he has become one of Britain’s most beloved sons. Mr and Mrs Andrews is an oil on canvas portrait of about 1750 by Thomas Gainsborough, now in the National Gallery, London. The identity of the boy in blue is uncertain more importantly, he is a stand-in for all boys and the idea of childhood. On a child-sized canvas, the young subject is dressed in a striking blue costume he is bright-eyed yet serious, shy yet direct. Find art you love and shop high-quality art prints, photographs, framed artworks and posters at Art.com.

It was a public farewell to a beloved painting.ġ00 years later (to the day), Gainsborough’s masterpiece returns to the Gallery to go on display in Trafalgar Square once again. A Lady in Blue (Duchess of Beaufor), C1780 Giclee Print by Thomas Gainsborough. Portrait of a Lady in a Blue Dress, c.1783/85 - Giclée Canvas Print Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) Location: Philadelphia Museum of Art Pennsylvania USA Original Size: 30. Portrait of a Lady in a Blue Dress, c.1783/85 - Giclée Canvas Print Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) Location: Philadelphia Museum of Art Pennsylvania USA Original Size: 30. In the winter of 1922, Gainsborough’s ‘The Blue Boy’ hung at the Gallery for three weeks before it sailed across the Atlantic to its new home in California.

Lady in blue dress by gainsborough