 | 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... 22 KB (2,454 words) - 01:14, 24 March 2024 |
Joseph Wright may refer to: Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797), English painter Joseph Wright (American painter) (1756–1793), American portraitist Joseph... 1 KB (198 words) - 11:44, 18 June 2022 |
 | Derby by Michael Thomas Bass. The collection includes a gallery displaying many paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby; there is also a large display of... 20 KB (2,139 words) - 11:56, 25 January 2024 |
 | in Eruption is the subject of a series of thirty paintings and at least one preliminary sketch by Joseph Wright of Derby, who travelled in Italy in the... 6 KB (574 words) - 17:39, 20 July 2023 |
 | Three Persons Viewing the Gladiator by Candlelight (category Paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby) by Joseph Wright of Derby and now resides in the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool [United Kingdom]. It depicts three men examining a reproduction of the... 8 KB (1,179 words) - 18:42, 21 April 2022 |
 | A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery (category Paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby) place of the Sun, is a 1766 painting by Joseph Wright of Derby depicting a lecturer giving a demonstration of an orrery – a mechanical model of the solar... 10 KB (1,100 words) - 14:26, 19 October 2023 |
 | Chiaroscuro (section Use of the term) artists such as Georges de La Tour and Trophime Bigot in France and Joseph Wright of Derby in England, carried on with such strong, but graduated, candlelight... 28 KB (3,151 words) - 18:23, 13 May 2024 |
 | title of at least three paintings completed by Joseph Wright of Derby between 1779 and 1785. The subject of these paintings is a fruit of Wright's Italian... 5 KB (362 words) - 02:43, 16 February 2023 |
| Midlands Enlightenment (category Age of Enlightenment) the author Anna Seward, the painter Joseph Wright of Derby, the American colonist, botanist and poet Susanna Wright, the lexicographer Samuel Johnson,... 11 KB (1,150 words) - 20:55, 12 May 2024 |
 | Romeo and Juliet: the Tomb Scene (category Paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby) Scene is a painting by Joseph Wright of Derby, completed by 1790, exhibited in 1790 and 1791, shown in the Derby Exhibition of 1839 in the Mechanics'... 8 KB (858 words) - 04:04, 14 May 2024 |
 | An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (category Paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby) painting by Joseph Wright of Derby, one of a number of candlelit scenes that Wright painted during the 1760s. The painting departed from convention of the time... 37 KB (4,940 words) - 19:37, 19 April 2024 |
 | 5, The Bagnio, c. 1743 Joseph Wright of Derby, Three Persons Viewing the Gladiator by Candlelight 1765 Joseph Wright of Derby, A Philosopher Lecturing... 52 KB (5,895 words) - 06:27, 13 May 2024 |
 | Two Girls Dressing a Kitten by Candlelight (category Paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby) and Dressing the Kitten) (c. 1768–1770) is a "fancy painting" by Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797). The painting is displayed at the Kenwood House Public... 13 KB (1,501 words) - 17:04, 17 July 2023 |
 | Grotto in the Gulf of Salerno is the subject of at least four paintings completed by Joseph Wright of Derby following his visit there in 1774. The paintings... 6 KB (619 words) - 08:31, 17 October 2023 |
 | Indian Widow (redirect from Indian Widow (Joseph Wright painting)) Indian Widow is a painting by Joseph Wright of Derby, completed in late 1783 or early 1784 and first shown in his solo exhibition in London in 1785. The... 5 KB (456 words) - 10:35, 14 April 2024 |
 | The Alchemist Discovering Phosphorus (redirect from The Alchemist in Search of the Philosopher's Stone) painting by Joseph Wright of Derby originally completed in 1771 then reworked in 1795. The full title of the painting is The Alchymist, in Search of the Philosopher's... 7 KB (559 words) - 13:48, 24 January 2024 |
| Solo exhibition (category Types of art museums and galleries) thought that the first solo exhibition in Britain was staged by Joseph Wright of Derby in 1785, the year after he refused to become a Royal Academician... 5 KB (604 words) - 17:59, 11 April 2023 |
 | Old Master (redirect from List of Old Masters) Reynolds (English, 1723–1792) Thomas Gainsborough (English, 1727–1788) Joseph Wright of Derby (English, 1734–1797) George Romney (English, 1734–1802) John Opie... 28 KB (2,937 words) - 19:33, 19 April 2024 |
 | Jones 2008, p. 89 Fraser, David. "Joseph Wright of Derby and the Lunar Society", in Egerton, Judy, Wright of Derby (London, 1990) Schofield 1966, p. 146... 28 KB (3,209 words) - 19:42, 22 November 2023 |
| chiaroscuro effects in painting, such as the candlelit paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby (illustration), backlighting helps separate subjects in the foreground... 3 KB (374 words) - 22:39, 12 May 2024 |
 | who trained Joshua Reynolds and Joseph Wright of Derby. Richardson also trained the most notable Irish portraitist of the period, Charles Jervas who enjoyed... 83 KB (10,311 words) - 16:34, 20 December 2023 |
 | Tomb of his Ancestors is a painting by Joseph Wright of Derby originally completed in 1772 . The painting was titled Miravan Breaking Open the Tomb of his... 5 KB (378 words) - 01:46, 2 November 2023 |
 | Erasmus Darwin (redirect from The Temple of Nature) 4 km) west of Derby. The hall and village are these days known as Radbourne. In 1782, they moved to Full Street, Derby. They had four sons, one of whom died... 40 KB (4,673 words) - 14:25, 15 March 2024 |
 | The Blacksmith's Shop (category Paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby) recurring theme of five paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby. The version in his hometown was originally completed in 1771. Joseph Wright of Derby painted five... 9 KB (734 words) - 15:07, 31 January 2024 |
cover of the book, designed by Paul Kidby, is a parody of the 1768 painting "An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump" by Joseph Wright of Derby. The Discworld... 10 KB (1,285 words) - 00:48, 15 October 2023 |
 | Dovedale by Moonlight (category Paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby) Dovedale by Moonlight, 1784, is one of five paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby which uses the picturesque valley of Dovedale as its subject. These paintings... 8 KB (681 words) - 13:26, 24 January 2024 |
 | Project Penelope Unravelling Her Web – a painting of Penelope by Joseph Wright of Derby (from the Getty Museum) Penelope and the Suitors, a painting by... 20 KB (2,191 words) - 17:07, 3 May 2024 |
 | Moon. Seaport by Moonlight (1771) by Claude Joseph Vernet Dovedale by Moonlight (1784) by Joseph Wright of Derby A Philosopher in a Moonlit Churchyard (1790)... 7 KB (715 words) - 21:44, 5 September 2023 |
 | Orrery (redirect from Planetary machines, an historical account of) needed to represent a year of 365.242 days, and used that to produce the cycles of the principal planets. Joseph Wright's painting A Philosopher giving... 25 KB (2,782 words) - 05:51, 4 May 2024 |
 | The Earthstopper (category Paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby) Earthstopper on the Banks of the Derwent is a painting by Joseph Wright of Derby originally completed in 1773. The scene shows a man digging at nighttime... 5 KB (479 words) - 02:56, 2 November 2023 |