Joseph Wright of Derby
18th-century British painter (1734-1797)
Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797) | |||
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Alternative names |
Joseph Wright | ||
Description | English painter and drawer | ||
Date of birth/death | 3 September 1734 | 29 August 1797 | |
Location of birth/death | Derby | Derby | |
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Main gallery: Paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby.
Science and arts
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Three Persons Viewing the Gladiator by Candlelight 1765
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The Orrery 1766
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An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump 1768
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Academy by Lamplight (c. 1768-69)
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1769
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The Alchemist in Search of the Philosophers Stone 1771
Blacksmith
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The Blacksmith's Shop 1771
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1771
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1772
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1773
Fire
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1779
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c.1790
Sitting Women
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c.1784
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1785
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1785
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1785
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1790
Self-Portraits
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1765-1768
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1765
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c.1769
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c. 1780
A letter
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c.1760
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c 1768
Boys and Girls
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c.1769
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c.1769
Landscape
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1785
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c.1785
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c.1785
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c.1786
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1786
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1787
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1787
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c.1788
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1790
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c.1790
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c.1790
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c.1791
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1791
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c.1793
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c.1795
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c.1795
Vesuvius
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1774
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c.1775
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Vesuvius from Posíllipo (c. 1788)
Grotto
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Cavern, near Naples 1774
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1774
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1778
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A Grotto in the Gulf of Salerno, Sunset c. 1780-81
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1780
Portraits
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c.1760
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Francis Noel Clarke Mundy c.1762
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Peter Perez and Hannah Burdett, 1765
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1766
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1766
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1782
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Reverend Basil Bury Beridge (1780/90)
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Thomas Gisborne 1786
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1789
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c.1790
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1790
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c.1792
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: Erasmus Darwin, 1792
Drawings
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c.1774
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c.1774