Joseph wright

Self Portrait at 19 years of age (1753)- Derby Museum & Art Gallery - this is a very assured painting for such a young man. We have recently attended a lecture on Joseph Wright of Derby at our Fine Art Society. I briefly mentioned him and his influence on my own appreciation of art in this post. This has prompted me to, possibly introduce him to you, or may be reacquaint you with him. He is always known as Wright of Derby, maybe because it was where he was born and lived most of his life…

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Also, the Getty Museum purchased a Joseph Wright of Derby painting after the UK failed to find a buyer, the Aaron Siskind Foundation donated over 8,000 photographs to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and more.

The genius of Joseph Wright of Derby will come under the spotlight later this year when one of the artist’s most important candlelit pictures, and one of his last major works remaining in private hands, appears at auction at Sotheby’s in London.

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The Alchemist Discovering Phosphorus or The Alchemist in Search of the Philosophers Stone by Joseph Wright of Derby 1771 (@derbymuseums)

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