Gainsborough’s Blue Boy returns to London next year

A century after it was sold to an American railway tycoon, one of Thomas Gainsborough’s most famous paintings will return to London for a short exhibition.
Now owned by Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, this is the first time the painting has been lent to another gallery, and highly unlikely to happen again in most of our lifetimes.
The painting, of a young man in a striking blue outfit in a style similar to Anthony van Dyck was painted by Gai