Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby)
Artist · 1734–1797
19 works across 2 collections on LinkedCulture
The effects of light fascinated Joseph Wright of Derby. An attorney's son, he trained as a portrait painter in London, but he returned to Derby, the first major English painter to build his career outside the capital. With scientific experiments a source of general fascination, his meticulously painted figure groups in dark interiors illuminated by candles or lamps carried his reputation to London
Works
View as IIIF ↗A villa surrounded by trees, at Rome (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 22 recto)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1774–75
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Curved wall, round tower and distant villa, near St. Peter's at Rome (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 8 recto)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1774–75
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Head of a dog (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 35 recto)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1774–75
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Landscape with an ancient temple converted into a church, at Rome (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 4 recto)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1774–75
#405723
Landscape with a river, arched bridge and distant mountains, near Rome (Smaller Italian Sketchbook, leaf 39 recto)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1774–75
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Landscape with distant buildings, near Rome (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 27 recto)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1774–75
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Landscape with distant buildings, near Rome (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 28 recto)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1774–75
#405750
Landscape with distant buildings (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 23 recto)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1774–75
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Landscape with trees and distant hills (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 37 recto)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1774–75
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Penelope Unraveling Her Web
Getty Museum · 1783–1784
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Portrait of a woman, her head turned to the right, wearing an earring
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1770–72
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Sketches of male bodies, after Michelangeolo (?) (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 18 recto)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1774–75
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Smaller Italian sketchbook (containing 43 drawings on 44 leaves)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1774–75
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Study of a Boy Reading
Getty Museum · about 1766
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Tile-roofed building with an arcade, part of the walls at Rome (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 31 recto)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1774–75
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Two Boys with a Bladder
Getty Museum · 1767
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Two demons and two legs, after Michelangelo (?) (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 16 recto)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1774–75
#405739
Upon the Tiber, near Rome (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 33 recto)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1774–75
#405755
Virgil's Tomb by Moonlight, with Silius Italicus Declaiming
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1779
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