Joseph Wright of Derby
Also known as Joseph Wright, Of Derby Wright, Joseph, of Derby Wright, Joseph Wright of Darby, Wright of Derby, of Derby J. Wright, Thomas Wright, Wright Of Derby
18th-century British painter (1734-1797)
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- Born
- 1751
- Died
- 1797
- Works
- 1
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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Joseph Wright ARA (3 September 1734 – 29 August 1797), styled Joseph Wright of Derby, was an English painter who specialised in portrait painting and landscape art. 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 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.
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1734 births1797 deaths18th-century English male artists18th-century English paintersArtists from DerbyAssociates of the Lunar Society of BirminghamAssociates of the Royal AcademyCollection of Derby Museum and Art GalleryCommons link from WikidataEnglish landscape paintersEnglish male paintersEnglish portrait painters