File:Thomas Gainsborough - The Blue Boy (The Huntington Library, San Marino L. A.).jpg

Size of this preview: 398 × 600 pixels. Other resolutions: 159 × 240 pixels | 318 × 480 pixels | 509 × 768 pixels | 679 × 1,024 pixels | 1,576 × 2,375 pixels.

Original file ‎(1,576 × 2,375 pixels, file size: 1.26 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below.
Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help.

This file has been superseded by The Blue Boy.jpg. It is recommended to use the other file. Please note that deleting superseded images requires consent.

Reason to use the other file: "Lower pixel count, but sharper, better colour"

Summary

Thomas Gainsborough: The Blue Boy

Artist



Description	British painter, engraver and drawer
Date of birth/death	14 May 1727	2 August 1788
Location of birth/death	Sudbury	London
Work location	Sudbury, London, Ipswich, Bath
Authority file	: Q192720 VIAF: 29542582 ISNI: 0000000108830621 ULAN: 500115200 LCCN: n79055449 NLA: 35109328 WorldCat

Title

The Blue Boy

,

Portrait of Jonathan Buttall

Object type

painting

Genre

portrait

Depicted people

Jonathan Buttall

Date

circa 1770

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 178 cm (70 in); width: 122 cm (48 in)

Collection

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

	Native name	Huntington Library
	Location	San Marino (United States of America)
	Coordinates	34° 07′ 37.99″ N, 118° 06′ 36″ W
	Established	1928
	Website	www.huntington.org
	Authority file	: Q1400558 VIAF: 147236009 ISNI: 0000000419369238 ULAN: 500293829 LCCN: n79049138 NLA: 36201470 WorldCat

Accession number

21.1 (The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens)

Place of creation

England

Object history

1921: in collection of The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
1796: sale of the collection of

Exhibition history

Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly
National Gallery, 1922

References

The Huntington Library, Art Collections

Authority file

Source/Photographer

The Yorck Project (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. ISBN: 3936122202.

Other versions

Licensing

This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:

	This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer. You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States.
	This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.

The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	21:06, 15 June 2012		1,576 × 2,375 (1.26 MB)	Jbarta	remove greenish cast
	11:32, 19 May 2005		1,576 × 2,375 (261 KB)	File Upload Bot (Eloquence)	{{Painting\| \|Title=<br /> ''de:'' Knabe in Blau (Porträt des Jonathan Buttall) \|Technique=<br /> ''de:'' Öl auf Leinwand \|Dimensions=<br /> ''de:'' 178 × 122 cm \|Location=<br /> ''de:'' San Marino \|Country=<br /> ** ''de:'' Großbritanien \|