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| Portrait of Joseph Wright by William Tate ( 1747-1806 ), a student of Joseph Wright |
Joseph Wright (1734 – 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 noted 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 meetings of the Lunar Society, a group of very influential 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.
This is part 5 of a 5 - part post on the works of Joseph Wright. For full biographical notes see part 1. For earlier works see parts 1 - 4 also.
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| 1789c The Dead Soldier oil on canvas 101.6 x 127 cm |
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| 1790 Italian Landscape oil on canvas 103.5 x 130.4 cm The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| 1790 Portrait of Richard Arkwright Junior with his Wife Mary and Daughter Anne oil on canvas 244 x 158.5 cm |
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| 1790 Romeo and Juliet: The Tomb Scene oil on canvas 177.8 x 241.3 cm Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby, UK |
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| 1790 The Lake of Albano oil on canvas 101.9 x 126.4 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff, UK |
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| 1790-02c Lake Albano oil on canvas 36.2 x 54.5 cm Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, CT |
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| 1790-92 Antigonus in the Storm ( Act III, scene iii ) from Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale" oil on canvas 153.9 x 221.3 cm Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada |
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| 1793 Samuel Middiman after Joseph Wright "Winter's Tale" engraving ( Spooner Edition 1852 ) 49.5 x 63.5 cm Harvard Art Museums - Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA |
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| 1790-92c Samuel Oldknow oil on canvas 243.9 x 152.4 cm Temple Newsam House, Leeds Museums and Galleries, UK |
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| 1790-93 Mrs. Francis Boott oil on canvas 77.2 x 64.1 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| 1790-93c Harriet Wright, the Artist's Daughter brown monochrome on canvas 24.4 x 21.3 cm Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby, UK |
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| 1790-95c Landscape near Bedgellert, North Wales oil on canvas 57.1 x 76.3 cm Private Collection |
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| 1790c A Cottage in Needwood Forest, Staffordshire oil on canvas 100.4 x 125.7 cm Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby, UK |
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| 1790c Italian Landscape with Mountains and a River oil on canvas 52.1 x 77.5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas |
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| 1790c Jedediah Strutt oil on canvas 127 x 101.6 cm Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby, UK |
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| 1790c Lake Nemi at Sunset oil on canvas 100 x 128 cm Louvre, Paris |
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| 1790c Lake Nemi oil on canvas 36.2 x 54.5 cm Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, CT |
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| 1790c Lake Nemi, Sunset oil on wood panel 44.5 x 62.5 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia |
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| 1790c Landscape with Figures and a Tilted Cart: Matlock High Tor in the Distance oil on canvas 101.6 x 127 cm Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, NY |
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| 1791 Bridge through a Cavern, Moonlight oil on canvas 63.5 x 76.2 cm Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby, UK |
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| 1791 Three Children of Richard Arkwright with a Goat oil on canvas ( 190.5 x 149.9 cm ) |
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| 1792 Lake Albano and Castel Gandolfo, Italy oil on canvas? 36.9 x 43.4 cm Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, UK |
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| 1793 Lake of Keswick and Skiddaw ( attributed to ) graphite and ink on paper 28.4 x 43.6 cm |
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| 1794 Landscape with a Rainbow oil on canvas 81.2 x 106.7 cm Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby, UK |
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| n.d. Landscape with Rainbow, View near Chesterfield watercolour 31.1 x 41 cm Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, CT |
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| 1795 Portrait of Sarah and Ann Haden oil on canvas mounted on panel Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA |
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| 1795 Rydal Waterfall, Cumbria oil on canvas 57.2 x 76.2 cm Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby, UK |
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| 1795-96 Derwent Water, with Skiddaw in the Distance oil on canvas 56.5 x 80 cm Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, CT |
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| 1795c Ullswater oil on canvas 44.4 x 52 cm Dove Cottage and The Wordsworth Museum, Grasmere, UK |
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| 1983-86 Italian Landscape, a View near Tivoli oil on canvas 76.2 x 96.5 cm Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby, UK |
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| 1992 Erasmus Darwin oil on canvas 76 x 63.5 cm Wolverhampton Arts and Heritage, UK |
Note: I couldn't find dates for the following works; they are either undated or not dated by the in the relevant collections. They will by default be out of date sequence:
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| n.d High Tor, Matlock, Derbyshire oil on canvas Leicester Arts and Museums Service, UK |
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| n.d. A Church in Italy watercolour 24.8 x 32.4 cm Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, CT |
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| n.d. Anna Ashton ( Later Mrs Thomas Case ) oil on canvas 123.7 x 98.8 cm University of Liverpool, UK |
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| n.d. Dovedale by Derbyshire, Moonlight oil on canvas 68.5 x 90 cm Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby, UK |
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| n.d. Girl with a Dove oil on canvas 61 x 50.8 cm Private Collection |
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| n.d. Ironworking ( attributed to ) oil on board 17 x 24.1 cm Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, UK |
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| n.d. Italianate Lake Scene with Waterfall oil on canvas 52.5 x 89.5 cm The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford, UK |
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| n.d. James Winthorpe Mortimer ( attributed to ) oil on canvas 65 x 54.8 cm Derby Art Gallery, Derby, UK |
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| n.d. Landscape with Ruins graphite, black and white chalk, grey, brown and black wash on beige paper 40.6 x 46 cm Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, CT |
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| n.d. Nice. A Tower on a Hill graphite and watercolour 24.2 x 34.8 cm Tate, London |
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| n.d. Portrait of a Man Reading ( attributed to ) oil on canvas 72.4 x 57.8 cm Temple Newsam House, Leeds Museums and Galleries, UK |
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| n.d. Portrait of Mr. Anthony Greatorex oil on canvas 76.2 x 63.5 cm SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA |
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| n.d. Portrait of Mrs. Anthony Greatorex oil on canvas 76.2 x 63.5 cm SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA |
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| n.d. Portrait of Mrs Abney oil in canvas? 125 x 100 cm Private Collection |
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| n.d. Portrait of Susannah Leigh oil on canvas mounted on panel 74 x 63 cm Private Collection |
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| n.d. Portrait of the Hon Mrs Boyle oil on canvas 76.2 x 63.5 cm Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand |
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| n.d. Ravenhead Works, St Helens, Lancashire ( attributed to ) oil on canvas 76 x 105 cm Pilkington Glass Collection, UK |
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| n.d. Robert Parker of Cuerden Hall oil on canvas 127 x 102 cm Astley Hall Museum and Art Gallery, Astley Park, Chorley, Lancashire, UK |
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| n.d. Rocky Landscape with Waterfalls graphite and wash on paper 38.1 x 54.3 cm Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, CT |
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| n.d. Samuel Bristowe of Twyford and Beesthorpe ( 1736–1818 ) ( attributed to ) oil on canvas 73.5 x 61.1 cm County House, Castle Meadow Road, Nottingham, UK |
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| n.d. Scene near Naples, Italy, Moonlight oil on canvas 59.1 x 74.3 cm Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby, UK |
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| n.d. Snowdon by Moonlight oil on canvas 88 x 123 cm Victoria Gallery and Museum, Liverpool, UK |
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| n.d. The Campagna graphite, grey and blue wash on cream laid paper 27.6 x 49.2 cm Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, CT |
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| n.d. The Funeral Pyre oil on millboard 48.3 x 63.9 cm York Museums Trust, UK |
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| n.d. The Reverend Thomas Wilson ( 1703–1784 ) and Miss Catherine Macaulay ( 1731–1791 ) oil on canvas 127.6 x 101.6 cm Chawton House Library, Alton, UK |
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| n.d. Two Students Sketching ( attributed to ) oil on canvas 115.6 x 135.9 cm Five Colleges Museums Collections Database, MA |
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ReplyDeleteThis is a really great series of pictures and suggests to me that Wright is not yet understood. I think his portraits are frequently caricatures like Goya's and that could never be said or hinted in his time. His pictures of Italy have a sort of sci-fi tinge because of their coloring and that wouldn't have been understood in his time. Work in iron forges is still an uncommon theme of pictures. His light is often unnatural - such as phosphorus light. In general there is a disharmonious element in almost every picture (including his landscapes which are geologically accurate but not peaceful nostalgia and not topographical celebrations of wealth) for which there is no explanation in the literature about Wright. Here we see intimations of the oncoming next two centuries as the middle class, not the upper class, would experience them?
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