Today we thought it would be fun to give some background and trivia on the paintings "The Blue Boy" and "Pinkie". These famous paintings are more interesting than you might have realized! 

Both of these paintings were painted with oil on canvas, and are full length portraits painted in the 18th century. However, this is where the similarities end. 

"The Blue Boy" was painted by Thomas Gainsborough in 1770. The boy in the painting was not a royal, as some guess, but actually a boy named Jonathan Buttall. He was the son of a hardware merchant who was friends with Gainsbo...