At the National Gallery
Naomi Grant: Gainsborough’s ‘Blue Boy’, 12 May 2022
“... interest in the English pastoral. Delacroix visited England in 1825, meeting both Lawrence and Richard Parkes Bonington; the trip inspired his outdoor portrait of Louis-Auguste Schwiter, which Degas later bought for his private collection. Degas’s own instincts as a painter throw the difficulties of the genre into relief. The ‘fancy picture’, as it ... ”