The Brown Boy is a 1764 portrait painting by the British artist Joshua Reynolds. Also known as Portrait of Thomas Lister it depicts Thomas Lister a member of a prominent Yorkshire landowning family in
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Joshua Reynolds – Self portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds, PRA – Google Art Project
The Red Boy, or Master Lambton, are popular names for a portrait made in 1825 by Sir Thomas Lawrence. It is officially entitled with the name of its subject, Charles William Lambton, who was the elder
The Brown Boy
…politician and was made Lord Ribblesdale in 1797. The popular title is an allusion to well-known works such as The Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough and The Red Boy by Thomas Lawrence. Reynolds was elected the first President of the Royal Academy a few years after producing the work and was very influential on the…