The Blue Boy is Back!
February 4 2022
Video: The National Gallery
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Just in case you haven't heard, Thomas Gainsborough's The Blue Boy has returned to London 100 years after it was sold and shipped off to America. The National Gallery have made this short video with curator Christine Riding giving her own view on the significance of the painting. I've also listened to Tudor and constitutional historian Dr David Starkey's own take on the portrait, which makes a lot more of the connotations of the Van Dyke dress and English identity.
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