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Joseph Wright

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." Wright is notable for his use of chiaroscuro effect, which emphasises the contrast of light and dark, and, for his paintings of candle-lit subjects. His paintings of the birth of science out of alchemy, often based on the meetings of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, a group of scientists and industrialists living in the English Midlands, are a significant record of the struggle of science against religious values in the period known as the Age of Enlightenment. Many of Wright's paintings and drawings are owned by Derby City Council, and are on display at the Derby Museum and Art Gallery.[

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Artworks on platform: 47
Works collected: 16,765
Comments: 84
Featured on boards: 5
Individual collectors: 6,489

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Firework Display at the Castel Sant Angelo by Joseph Wright

Firework Display at the Castel Sant Angelo

Mr and Mrs Thomas Coltman by Joseph Wright

Mr and Mrs Thomas Coltman

Portrait of Mrs. Anthony Greatorex by Joseph Wright

Portrait of Mrs. Anthony Greatorex

Mrs Frances Hesketh by Joseph Wright

Mrs Frances Hesketh

Richard Gildart by Joseph Wright

Richard Gildart

Edward Becher Leacroft of Wirksworth by Joseph Wright

Edward Becher Leacroft of Wirksworth

The Dead Soldier by Joseph Wright

The Dead Soldier

The Dead Soldier by Joseph Wright

The Dead Soldier

Academy by Lamplight by Joseph Wright

Academy by Lamplight

Fleetwood Hesketh by Joseph Wright

Fleetwood Hesketh

William and Margaret from Percy's 'Reliques of Ancient English Poetry' by Joseph Wright

William and Margaret from Percy's 'Reliques of Ancient English Poetry'

Vesuvius in Eruption, with a View over the Islands in the Bay of Naples by Joseph Wright

Vesuvius in Eruption, with a View over the Islands in the Bay of Naples

The Synnot children by Joseph Wright

The Synnot children

The Rev. and Mrs. Thomas Gisborne, of Yoxhall Lodge, Leicestershire by Joseph Wright

The Rev. and Mrs. Thomas Gisborne, of Yoxhall Lodge, Leicestershire

The Prisoner by Joseph Wright

The Prisoner

The Blacksmith's Shop by Joseph Wright

The Blacksmith's Shop

Studies of a Classical Bust by Joseph Wright

Studies of a Classical Bust

Self-Portrait by Joseph Wright

Self-Portrait

Portrait of a Man, Known as the "Indian Captain" by Joseph Wright

Portrait of a Man, Known as the "Indian Captain"

Matlock Tor by Moonlight by Joseph Wright

Matlock Tor by Moonlight

Stats

Artworks on platform: 47
Works collected: 16,765
Comments: 84
Featured on boards: 5
Individual collectors: 6,489

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