The Blue Boy
Thomas Gainsborough · 1770
Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens
San Marino, California · Founded 1919
Gainsborough's Blue Boy, a Gutenberg Bible, and 120 acres of botanical garden around them. A library, an art collection and a botanical garden on one estate, built by Henry and Arabella Huntington.
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The Blue Boy
Thomas Gainsborough · 1770
The Blue Boy is a full-length oil on canvas portrait in oil by English artist Thomas Gainsborough, from c. 1770.
Ellesmere Chaucer
The Ellesmere Chaucer, or Ellesmere Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, is an early 15th-century illuminated manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, owned by the Huntington Library, in San Marino, California (EL 26 C 9). It is considered one of the most significant copies of the Tales.
Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse
Joshua Reynolds · 1784
Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse, or Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse, is a 1783 to 1784 painting by English painter Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Diptych of Philip de Croÿ with The Virgin and Child
Rogier van der Weyden · 1460
The Diptych of Philip de Croÿ with The Virgin and Child consists of a pair of small oil-on-oak panels painted c. 1460 by the Netherlandish artist Rogier van der Weyden.
Pinkie
Thomas Lawrence · 1794
Pinkie is the traditional title for a portrait made in 1794 by the English painter Thomas Lawrence. It is now in the Huntington Library at San Marino, California, where it normally hangs opposite The Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough. The title now given it by the museum is Sarah Goodin Barrett Moulton: "Pinkie". These two works are the centerpieces of the institution's art collection, which has notable holdings of eighteenth-century British portraiture. The painting depicts Sarah Moulton (1783–1795), who was about eleven years old when painted, on a hilltop.
Portrait of Samuel Johnson
Joshua Reynolds · 1775
Portrait of Samuel Johnson, also known as Blinking Sam, is an oil-painted portrait of English lexicographer Samuel Johnson reading, created by English artist Joshua Reynolds around 1775. The painting highlights Johnson's vision problems, which led Johnson to deride the painting and say that he would not be "Blinking Sam", as quoted in Hester Thrale's Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson. The artwork has since been noted to be the "best-known" portrait of Johnson, and became an Internet meme in 2012. The painting is located at The Huntington Library, San Marino, California, United States, where it is on display.
Artists
English · 1734–1802 · Rococo
George Romney was an English painter. He was the most fashionable artist of his day, painting many leading society figures – including his artistic muse, Emma Hamilton, mistress of Lord Nelson.
English · 1723–1792 · Neoclassicism
Sir Joshua Reynolds was an English painter who specialised in portraits. The art critic John Russell called him one of the major European painters of the 18th century, while Lucy Peltz says he was "the leading portrait a
Kingdom of Great Britain · 1776–1837
John Constable was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for revolutionising the genre of landscape painting with his pictures of Dedham Vale, the area on the bo
American · 1844–1926 · Impressionism
Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, but lived most of her adult life in France, where she befriended Edgar Degas and exhibited with the Impressionists.
English · 1727–1788 · Rococo
Thomas Gainsborough was an English painter, draughtsman and printmaker who specialised in portrait and landscape painting.
Italian · 1448–1494 · Italian Renaissance
Domenico di Tommaso Curradi di Doffo Bigordi, professionally known as Domenico Ghirlandaio, was an Italian Renaissance painter born in Florence.
Artworks
Rabaut Saint-Etienne
Jacques-Louis David · 1791
Hauling in the Net, Twilight
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Portrait of a Man
Domenico Ghirlandaio · 1490
Chimborazo
Frederic Edwin Church · 1864
Neapolitan Fisher Girls Surprised Bathing by Moonlight
J. M. W. Turner · 1840
Bit of Silvermine - The Old Farm House
Charles Reiffel · 1916
Portrait of Margaret Chew Bordley
John Wollaston the Younger · 1752
Portrait of Jean de Thevenot
Philippe de Champaigne · 1660
Venus and Cupid
François Boucher · 1769
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1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108, United States.
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