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The Blue Boy is on show at London's National Gallery for the first time in a century

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Video. Gainsborough's Blue Boy is back in town a century after it left

Updated: 30/01/2022 - 17:59 GMT+1

The painting had hung at the gallery for three weeks in the winter of 1922 before making its way across the Atlantic Ocean after it was bought by a US collector from the Duke of Westminster.

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