some also think he took some inspiration in the pose from an earlier Charles II Van Dyck had done and somehing about Van Dyck’s talk of light inspiration....it is to me anyhow one of the finest representational arts ever produced..in the top 10-20 I’d wager even to critics wouldn’t you?
it’s funny, I’m old now but as lad in the 60s I recall going into country homes in the South and there would be Blue Boy on the wall in the parlor or foyer of whites from real crackers to gentry
it was as ubiquitous as JFK was in black homes lol
I never knew till just now that it hung in a private home for some time in Kali
"The beautiful Mrs. Graham" - a renowned society beauty, nee' Miss Cathcart.
But I think I like him best in his less polished mode - as in this sketch of his daughters -
I'm a minority opinion, I know, but I think that Hogarth - when he's on his game - is the best of the English painters.
You’re right about the ubiquity of the “Blue Boy” in the South, btw. My mom, who has always been more avant-garde than I am (still is) used to roll her eyes. And I remember Mad magazine had a parody back in the 60s . . .