Dutch Boy Paint

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Dutch Boy
File:LeadPaint1.JPG
Product typePaint
OwnerSherwin-Williams (1980)
CountryU.S.
Introduced1907 (1907)
MarketsU.S.
Previous ownersNational Lead Company (1907–1980)
Websitedutchboy.com

The Dutch Boy Group is a paint manufacturing company currently headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. Founded in 1907 by the National Lead Company, the Dutch Boy Paints brand is currently a subsidiary of the Consumer Group division of the Sherwin-Williams Company, which acquired it in 1980, two years after the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's directive banning the manufacturing of lead housepaint went into effect.[1] Modern Dutch Boy paint is a lead-free acrylic paint.

Trademark

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File:Dutch Boy Painter.jpg
Original painting done for the National Lead Company and used as the logo

Dutch Boy uses a stylized Dutch child as its trademark. He was painted by Lawrence Carmichael Earle and modeled after an Irish-American lad who lived near him named Michael Edward Brady.[2]

Products

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  • Ceiling paints
  • Exterior paints
  • Faux finishes
  • Interior paints
  • Paint samples
  • Primers
  • Porch and Floor

References

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