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The Blue Boy

Thomas Gainsborough · 1770

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Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens

San Marino, California

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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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

Catherine (Brouncker) Adye, later Catherine Willett — George Romney
English · 1734–1802 · Rococo

Jane Fleming, later Countess of Harrington — Joshua Reynolds
English · 1723–1792 · Neoclassicism

Flatford Mill from the Lock — John Constable
Kingdom of Great Britain · 1776–1837

Fillette au Grand Chapeau — Mary Cassatt
American · 1844–1926 · Impressionism

Carl Friedrich Abel — Thomas Gainsborough
English · 1727–1788 · Rococo

Portrait of a Woman — Domenico Ghirlandaio
Italian · 1448–1494 · Italian Renaissance

The Grand Canal: Scene - A Street in Venice — J. M. W. Turner
Kingdom of Great Britain · 1775–1851

Diptych of Philip de Croy - Virgin and Child — Rogier van der Weyden
Burgundian Netherlands · 1390–1464 · Early Netherlandish painting

Lady Affleck and her Daughters — Andrew Plimer
United Kingdom · 1763–1837

Bit of Silvermine - The Old Farm House — Charles Reiffel
United States · 1862–1942

View of Seaport — Claude Lorrain
Duchy of Lorraine · 1600–1682

Portrait of Anne Killigrew (1607-1641), wife of George Kirke — Sir Anthony van Dyck
Spanish Netherlands · 1599–1641

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Artworks

Rabaut Saint-Etienne — Rabaut Saint-Etienne
Jacques-Louis David · 1791

Hauling in the Net, Twilight — Hauling in the Net, Twilight
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Portrait of a Man — Portrait of a Man
Domenico Ghirlandaio · 1490

Chimborazo — Chimborazo
Frederic Edwin Church · 1864

Neapolitan Fisher Girls Surprised Bathing by Moonlight — Neapolitan Fisher Girls Surprised Bathing by Moonlight
J. M. W. Turner · 1840

Portrait of Margaret Chew Bordley — Portrait of Margaret Chew Bordley
John Wollaston the Younger · 1752

Portrait of Jean de Thevenot — Portrait of Jean de Thevenot
Philippe de Champaigne · 1660

Venus and Cupid — Venus and Cupid
François Boucher · 1769

Emma Hart, later Lady Hamilton, in a Straw Hat — Emma Hart, later Lady Hamilton, in a Straw Hat
George Romney · 1794

Eruption of Vesuvius 1771 seen from Portici — Eruption of Vesuvius 1771 seen from Portici
Joseph Wright of Derby · 1774

Porträt des David Wilson Jordan — Porträt des David Wilson Jordan
Thomas Eakins

Mrs. Elijah Boardman and her Son, William Whiting Boardman — Mrs. Elijah Boardman and her Son, William Whiting Boardman
Ralph Earl · 1796

Sources

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