Thomas Gainsborough, The Blue Boy (ca. 1770) shown in normal light photography (left), digital x-radiography (center, including a dog previously revealed in a 1994 x-ray), and infrared ...

Thomas Gainsborough and the Modern Woman, San Diego Museum of Art, 1450 El Prado, Balboa Park, (619) 232-7931, through May 1. Closed Monday. www.sdmart.org. Recent and related: ...

Thomas Gainsborough was born in Sudbury in 1727, the youngest of nine children. He showed an early aptitude for drawing, especially out of doors, and making farmyard animals out of clay.

Thomas Gainsborough's The Blue Boy is returning to Britain exactly 100 years after a curator at The Royal Academy scrawled 'au revoir' on the back as it set sale for the US.

Thomas Gainsborough's 18th century painting Blue Boy inspired 21st century painter Kehinde Wiley, and they're being shown across from each other at the Huntington Art Museum near Los Angeles.

Gainsborough’s artistic career might have been stillborn were it not for his uncle Thomas. His 1738 will settled lump sums on each of his nephews at their maturity.

Thomas Gainsborough owed his career to a double murder in the family, it has been claimed, after new research unearthed a dastardly tale of gunpowder and poison. Jump to content.

Thomas Gainsborough’s ‘The Blue Boy,’ a sensation from the moment it was unveiled, will be returning briefly to London for the first time in a century.

One of the remarkable things about Thomas Gainsborough (1727‑88) is that, unlike many great artists who have languished for long periods in obscurity (think of Vermeer, who was forgotten until ...

The birthplace of 18th Century artist Thomas Gainsborough has launched an appeal to help preserve its collection of "culturally significant" works. Gainsborough's House in Sudbury, Suffolk, looks ...

One of the earliest known works by 18th-century painter Thomas Gainsborough, that was originally misattributed and bought by a retired company director for £2,600, is to be sold at auction with a ...

Art History Thomas Gainsborough’s ‘Blue Boy’ Was Once the World’s Most Famous Painting—Here Are 3 Surprising Facts About It. This January, The Blue Boy will go on view at the National ...