Image / Famed "Blue Boy" painting by Thomas Gainsborough, Los Angeles, 1921

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Title: Famed "Blue Boy" painting by Thomas Gainsborough, Los Angeles, 1921
Date Created and/or Issued: November, 1921
1921-11
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Image appears with article "Buys Noted Painting. 'Blue Boy' Goes to Huntington; Famous Gainsborough Work Purchased by Los Angeles Millionaire; Picture Was Acquired Short Time Ago by Duveens for £170,000," Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 1931: I1.
Text from newspaper caption: Famous Gainsborough. All of England is lamenting the taxation system that compelled the Duke of Westminster, conceded to be England's richest peer, to part with such an art treasure.
Text from negative sleeve: Art, paintings. Blue Boy.
Type: image
Format: b&w glass negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3691_G175
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Portraits
Oil paintings
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788
Huntington, Henry Edwards, 1850-1927
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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