the origin of ~ BLUE BOY ~ the painting


				the origin of ~ BLUE BOY ~ the painting

as told by SIR JOHN SOANE
professor at the royal academy ~ LONDON ENGLAND

did you wonder why some miniature paintings of blue boy have gold cape ~ here is the answer

1- ROMNEY

PORTRAIT OF OLIVER MARTON
born 1757

2- GAINSBOROUGH

OLIVER - GAINSBORO STYLE

3-GAINSBOROUGH

GAINSBORO AS HIMSELF

the complete version

LONDON - c 1777

SIR JOHN SOANE was at a meeting at the royal academy - he stated that -

GEORGE ROMNEY brought in a miniature painting

GAINSBOROUGH says the painting be better if the cape were painted blue.

SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS disagrees

a very heated argument begins ....

gainsborough is challenged to prove his point

the very first & original

blue boy BY GEORGE ROMNEY

experts call Romney " the forgotten genius "

signed R o m n e

GAINSBOROUGH makes COPY OF ROMNEYS BLUE BOY

gainsborough paints this miniature -to prove his point

changing the cape to blue

this is an altered copy of romneys blue boy

it is only a sketch - done very quickly

could have been done at the meeting

the boy now looks like gainsborough ~ this is normal and correct

reynolds is reported as addressing gainsboro as

plain gains- borough

while gainsboro was required to address reynolds

as sir joshua.

this explains why the sketch is signed

Mr t. GainS BorougH- in a welch dialect

new bern north carolina ~ 1944

c b foy of new bern north carolina told me the story

his grandfather was david paton of edinborough .

david paton was sir john soane's student and partner

i asked c b foy

what ever hapened to romneys blue boy

"oh its probably somewhere in england"

yankee doodle went to london town

the wealthy american is on the " grand tour "

starting at london

ending in italy ~ land of MACCORINI

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more - to help below

a copy of romnys blue boy

to be sold as romneys blue boy

the real one has a finger print on it

the copyist tried to paint in the print - poor results

signed very crude

the painted in fingerprint is behind the trees

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