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Robert Rauschenberg claimed that seeing this painting while on leave from the Navy inspired him to become an artist. A Black man with dyed blonde hair wears an Apple Watch and stands against a background full of bright orange flowers in a 2021 response to this painting by Kehinde Wiley. Like its artist’s portrait of Edward Richard Gardiner, this painting uses “van Dyck costume.” According to a false rumor, it was painted to refute the Eighth Discourse of the founder of the Royal Academy. A painting by Thomas Lawrence formerly hung opposite this one in Los Angeles (10[2])at the Huntington. This painting’s subject, who may be Jonathan Nuttall, adopts a contrapposto (10[1])pose with his hand on his hip and holds a black feathered hat in his right hand. For 10 points, name this colorful portrait of a youth by Thomas Gainsborough. ■END■ (0[1])

ANSWER: The Blue Boy [or Portrait of a Young Gentleman] (Kehinde Wiley’s painting replaced Pinkie, the Thomas Lawrence painting, that was formerly opposite it at the Huntington.)
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