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National Gallery London Unveils Newly-Restored Acquisition 'The Red Boy' While 'The Blue Boy' Visits

Two of the most iconic examples of British portraiture are currently on public view at the National Gallery in London the newly-acquired Sir Thomas Lawrence portrait known as The Red Boy joins The Blue Boy, Thomas Gainborough's masterpiece which is on loan through this spring from the Huntington Museum in California. One hundred years after wealthy American Henry E. Huntington purchased Gainsborough’s masterpiece, The Blue Boy (ca. 1770) from the Duke of Westminster, and it set . ....

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National Gallery buys Sir Thomas Lawrence's The Red Boy for close to £10million


It s been dividing opinion ever since it was first exhibited in 1825.
The poet William Wordsworth described The Red Boy as a wretched histrionic thing – and there have been plenty more who have deplored what they saw as the painting s sentimentality.
But to others Sir Thomas Lawrence s portrait is a masterpiece of technique, praised by one 19th century critic as showing the sparkling intelligence of youth .
Soon visitors to the National Gallery will be able to make their own minds up about a work that been featured on countless boxes of shortbread and toffee.
The poet William Wordsworth described The Red Boy as a wretched histrionic thing – and there have been plenty more who have deplored what they saw as the painting s sentimentality ....

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