Our Story

The Blue Boy Inn was built in 2007 by owner and proprietor Marc Tremblay.  Marc is originally a native of Montreal Quebec Canada and after many years of travel to the Caribbean he fell in love with Rincon which is where he decided to build his dream.  The Blue Boy Inn is now managed and run on a daily basis by Marc and Sarah, a Rincon local.  Sarah and Marc work on-site from morning to night, allowing them to manage all of the daily operations of the inn with a great attention to detail.  If there’s anything a guest needs, Marc and Sarah are here to help.

Our Inspiration

The Blue Boy (c. 1770) is an oil painting by Thomas Gainsborough. Perhaps Gainsborough’s most famous work and the best known painting at the Huntington, The Blue Boy is thought to be a portrait of Jonathan Buttall, the son of a wealthy hardware merchant who was a close friend of the artist. It is an historical costume study as well as a portrait: the youth is dressed in a costume dating from about 140 years before the portrait was painted.  The 17th-century apparel was familiar through the portraits of the great Flemish painter, Anthony Van Dyck (1559-1641), who was resident in England during the early 17th-century.  Gainsborough greatly admired the work of Van Dyck and the Blue Boy is regarded as Gainsborough’s homage to that master.  In particular, the painting is very close to Van Dyck’s portrait of Charles II as a boy.  The work was executed during Gainsborough’s extended stay in Bath before he finally settled in to London in 1774.  Mr. Huntington purchased the painting along with Gainsborough’s The Cottage Door and Reynold’s Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse from the Duke of Westminster.