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Joseph Wright (1734-97), known from his home city in the East Midlands as Wright of Derby, is one of the most interesting and unusual as well as talented painters of his generation in Britain, but he ...

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An exhibition of an artist that "puts Derby on the map" is under way at the National Gallery. The display in London is the first major exhibition of candlelight paintings created by 18th Century ...

On “Wright of Derby: From the Shadows,” at the National Gallery, London. In 1990, when the two great paintings were last brought together (in the major “Wright of Derby” exhibition shown, successively ...

Joseph Wright, styled ‘Wright of Derby’ was born the son of an attorney in 1734. He spent three years training under the fashionable artist Thomas Hudson. Hudson was most prolific between 1740 and ...