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Jonathan Buttall: The Blue Boy, 1770 Maker: Thomas Gainsborough British, 1727-1788 Sitter: Jonathan Buttall, British 1752 - 1805 Long enshrined as an icon of British art, this painting of Jonathan Buttall, the teenage son of a London ironmonger, made its first public appearance as Portrait of a Young Gentleman in the Royal Academy exhibition of 1770. By 1798 admiring British artists had nicknamed it "The Blue Boy". Symphony no. 91 Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) was one of the most prominent ... | |
