Joseph Wright of Derby
Joseph Wright (3 September 1734 – 29 August 1797), (Wright of Derby), was an English landscape and portrait painter. He painted the Industrial Revolution."[1]
Wright showed the contrast of light and dark. His paintings of early science in the English Midlands, show the Age of Enlightenment.
Many of Wright's paintings and drawings are on display at the Derby Museum and Art Gallery.[2]
Joseph Wright Of Derby Media
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, by Joseph Wright, 1768, National Gallery, London
Self-portrait as a young man, 1765–1768, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Cave at evening, (aka Grotto in the Gulf of Salerno) by Joseph Wright, 1774, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
The Alchemist in Search of the Philosopher's Stone, by Joseph Wright, 1771. Derby Museum and Art Gallery.
An Iron Forge, 1772, oil on canvas. Tate Britain, London.
The armillary sphere memorial in Irongate, Derby
Mrs Robert Gwillym. Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri.
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References, notes and sources
- ↑ F. D. Klingender; quoted in Ellis Waterhouse, Painting in Britain 1530 to 1790, Fourth Edition, New York, Viking Penguin, 1978; p. 285.
- ↑ "Gallery of Joseph Wright paintings at Derby Museum and Art Gallery". Archived from the original on 2010-08-30. Retrieved 2021-01-20.