The Blue Boy
by Thomas Gainsborough
Size
Small can save time and materials if you don't mind sacrificing some detail, or are limited by canvas size such as Diamond Art.
Colors
Medium color is a great compromise that usually gives great results without looking too grainy.
Palette
Selected Variation
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Description
One of Gainsborough's best known works, The Blue Boy was long thought to be a portrait of Jonathan Buttall (1752–1805), the son of a wealthy hardware merchant, because of his early ownership of the painting. This identification has never been proven and as Susan Sloman argued in 2013, the likely sitter is Gainsborough's nephew, Gainsborough Dupont (1754-1797). It is a historical costume study as well as a portrait; the youth appears in clothing from the 17th century as the artist's homage to Anthony van Dyck and is very similar to Van Dyck's portraits of young boys, especially his double portrait of brothers George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Lord Francis Villiers.
This pattern will enable you to reproduce the image using the medium of cross-stitch or diamond painting. The custom charting technology we developed produces the highest quality cross-stitch and diamond-art patterns available with new levels of detail and color matching to accurately reproduce the images in whatever size and color combination you prefer. Not every image will look as good with the lowest colors at extra small size but not every image needs maximum colors at extra large size. We create every combination and provide accurate mockups so you can select the pattern that is right for you.
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Color Palette
The complete color palette including DMC code, description and stitch count for the selected pattern is shown below. The downloaded PDF pattern or our app will give you the complete estimate of thread-skeins required based on the canvas type and number of strands used for stitching.
All our patterns are the highest quality that can be created for the given size and color constraints. Occasionally this results in some threads that are only used for a handful of stitches in a pattern but we include them because they are the best matches for those colors. You can stitch them as-is or you can use your own judgement and may decide to replace them with another similar color that is already used elsewhere in the pattern. Use our closest DMC thread-color lookup tool to select candidates for replacement.
Image Sizes
Patterns can be used with any canvas type, all that will change is the physical dimensions of the completed image. To allow for mounting a cross-stitch piece in a frame we recommend a canvas size with at least 3 additional inches on each edge.
| Completed Image Size | Suggested Canvas Size | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canvas Type | Width | Height | Width | Height |
| 11 Count Aida | 22 ¼" | 32 ¾" | 28 ¼" | 38 ¾" |
| 14 Count Aida | 17 ½" | 25 ¾" | 23 ½" | 31 ¾" |
| 16 Count Aida | 15 ¼" | 22 ½" | 21 ¼" | 28 ½" |
| 18 Count Aida | 13 ½" | 20" | 19 ½" | 26" |
| 20 Count Aida | 12 ¼" | 18" | 18 ¼" | 24" |
| 22 Count Hardanger | 11" | 16 ¼" | 17" | 22 ¼" |
| 25 Count Evenweave | 9 ¾" | 14 ½" | 15 ¾" | 20 ½" |
| 28 Count Evenweave | 8 ¾" | 12 ¾" | 14 ¾" | 18 ¾" |
| 32 Count Evenweave | 7 ¾" | 11 ¼" | 13 ¾" | 17 ¼" |
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