Where is the red boy painting by gainsborough?

Answer 1

Gainsborough painted the "Blue Boy". It is often paired - two famous Victorian portraits of aristocratic boys in opposite colors - with the "Red Boy" by Sir Thomas Lawrence. This is a lush portrait of a dark-haired boy dressed in rich red velvet, sitting on a rocky outcrop.

There is also a painting by Cezanne called "The Boy in a Red Waistcoat".

The painting known as "The Red Boy" is actually titled "Master Lambton", and was commissioned in 1825 by Lord Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, as a portrait of his eldest son, Charles William, who died of tuberculosis in 1831 at the age of 14.

The portrait soon became famous, now perhaps one of Lawrence's most famous, although the romantic poet William Wordsworth thought it too much, calling the painting "a wretched histrionic thing".

The portrait remained in the Earl of Durham's family until the 1930's and was sold for a million dollars (?) to a private Manhattan Gallery.

In 1969 it appeared on a British postage stamp.

A current Lawrence collection (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, February 24--June 5, 2011) may have it on display (not confirmed), on loan from a private collection.