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Joseph Wright ARA (3 September 1734 – 29 August 1797), styled Joseph Wright of Derby, was an English landscape and portrait painter. He has been acclaimed as "the first professional painter to express the spirit of the Industrial Revolution ".
Joseph Wright (July 16, 1756, Bordentown, New Jersey – September 13, 1793, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an American portrait painter and sculptor. He painted life portraits of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, and was a designer of early U.S. coinage.
English: Artist: Joseph Wright, 16 Jul 1756 - c. 11 Oct 1793 Sitter: George Washington, 22 Feb 1732 - 14 Dec 1799 Date: c. 1789-1790 Type: Painting
The painting, which has been privately owned since it was completed in 1772, has been acquired by Derby Museums and will go on public display in May. ‘Rare’ Joseph Wright of Derby self ...
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump is a 1768 oil-on-canvas painting by Joseph Wright of Derby, one of a number of candlelit scenes that Wright painted during the 1760s. The painting departed from convention of the time by depicting a scientific subject in the reverential manner formerly reserved for scenes of historical or religious ...
Egerton, Judy. "Joseph Wright of Derby: "Self-Portrait in a Fur Cap"." Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 18, no. 2 (1992): 113-184. Wright, Joseph, 1734-1797. 1765. Three Persons Viewing the Gladiator by Candlelight. painting. Solkin, David H. Painting for Money : The Visual Arts and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century England. New ...
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Benedict Nicolson, who was an authority on Joseph Wright believed this painting inspired lines of poetry [1] in a collection named after and in aid of the preservation of Needwood Forest. The lines were written by Francis Noel Clarke Mundy, who later commissioned six Wright portraits, including one of himself. These three quarter length ...
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