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Joseph Wright of Derby
(1734-1797)
The Alchymist in Search of the Philosophers' Stone Discovers Phosphorus
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Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump
A Philosopher Giving That Lecture on the Orrery, in Which a Lamp is Put in Place of the Sun 1766
The Forge
Joseph Wright of Derby was an 18th century English Romantic painter. Wright studied landscape painting under Thomas Hudson, and painted portraits of many merchants and landed gentry around England as an itinerant artist.
Mrs. Frances Hesketh
Thomas Borrow
Anne Borrow
Self-Portrait in Van Dyck Costume
Penelope Margaret Stafford
Derby Erasmus Darwin
Most of Wright's early portraits were half or three-quarter length single portraits. Wright lived and trained in Italy for several years, and returned and tried to compete with Gainsborough as portrait painter to the nobility. Wright's later works were mainly landscapes.
Eruption of Mt.Vesuvius
Dovedale by Moonlight
Moonlight Landscape
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