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Joseph Wright (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 tenebrism, an exaggerated form of the better known chiaroscuro effect, which emphasizes 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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Joseph Wright of Derby Three Children of Richard Arkwright with a Kite
1791 -
Joseph Wright of Derby Three Children of Richard Arkwright with a Goat
1791 -
Joseph Wright of Derby Sir Brooke Boothby
1781 -
Joseph Wright of Derby A Moonlight with a Lighthouse, Coast of Tuscany
?exhibited 1789 -
Joseph Wright of Derby Thomas Staniforth of Darnall, Co. York
1769 -
Joseph Wright of Derby A View of Catania with Mount Etna in the Distance
c.1775 -
Joseph Wright of Derby Vesuvius in Eruption, with a View over the Islands in the Bay of Naples
c.1776–80 -
Attributed to Joseph Wright of Derby Study of an Unknown Man
c.1751–7
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