Two young boys sit side by side on some boulders with a cloudy sky behind them and dark tree branches above in this vertical portrait painting. The boys both have pale skin with flushed, round cheeks, short, light brown hair, and brown eyes. They wear matching russet-brown suits with rows of gold-colored buttons on their chests and white ruffles that pop out of their collars, white stockings, and black, laced up shoes. The boy on our right looks at us with his right hand on the other boy’s shoulder. That second boy sits on a lower rock and looks up at the first while draping one arm over the…
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The Binning Children

Sir Henry Raeburn (Scottish, 1756 - 1823)

probably c. 1811

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 128.8 x 102.7 cm (50 11/16 x 40 7/16 in.) ; framed: 154.3 x 128.9 cm (60 3/4 x 50 3/4 in.)
Culture
British
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Given in memory of John Woodruff Simpson
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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