1.Yeames draws on a long visual history of royalism: the boy wears blue, recalling Gainsborough's 18th-century blue boy, in turn a homage to the Cavalier portraits of Charles I's court artist Van Dyck.
2.Yeames draws on a long visual history of royalism: the boy wears blue, recalling Gainsborough's 18th-century blue boy, in turn a homage to the Cavalier portraits of Charles I's court artist Van Dyck.