even if it is a paint-by-number. Machado painted a replica in 1975 of Thomas Gainsborourgh's "The Blue Boy" portrait. The original 18th-century oil painting is of Jonathan Buttall in shimmering ...

The Blue Boy is brilliantly blue once again, popping with color and no longer trapped behind a malaise of green hues, after conservators at The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens ...

And although conservators have finally finished restoring the 1770 Blue Boy painting just weeks ago, no one’s around to see his revitalized colors pop. The museum is in a pickle. It can’t just ...

and the painting was known to be highly influential to a number of 18th-century artists, including Gainsborough. Van Dyck’s influence on Blue Boy is not only apparent in the young subject’s ...

Though the holidays were long over, eager customers packed in for a glimpse of the first in-store demonstration of a new craft project called paint-by-number ... stared at the blue-caped matadors ...

In the 1970s, my grandfather, an immigrant grocer with a very limited education, talked about the “Blue Boy” as quite obviously the greatest painting ever made – although I doubt he could ...

Thomas Gainsborough (self portrait) Henry E. Huntington purchased The Blue Boy in 1921 for $728,000, the highest price ever paid for a painting at the time, according to the the Library.

Thomas Gainsborough's “The Blue Boy,” arguably the most famous European Old Master painting in America, will travel to London for a January exhibition at Britain’s National Gallery — the ...

Image Thomas Gainsborough’s 18th-century oil painting “The Blue Boy.”Credit...The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens; Christina Milton O’Connell “The first time I saw ...

And although conservators have finally finished restoring the 1770 Blue Boy painting just weeks ago, no one’s around to see his revitalized colors pop. The museum is in a pickle. It can’t just ...