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Joseph Wright

Joseph Wright, 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 notable for his use of tenebrism, an exaggerated form of the better known chiaroscuro effect, which emphasizes 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 the meetings of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, a group of 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.

Many of Wright's paintings and drawings are owned by Derby City Council, and are on display at the Derby Museum and Art Gallery.

Wikipedia

Date and place of birt:3 september 1734, Derby, United Kingdom
Date and place of death:29 august 1797, Derby, United Kingdom
Nationality:United Kingdom
Period of activity: XVIII century
Specialization:Artist, Painter
Art school / group:English School
Genre:Landscape painting, Portrait
Art style:Romanticism, Neoclassicism

Creators United Kingdom

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William Green (1760 - 1823)
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Craigie Aitchison (1926 - 2009)
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Thomas Christopher Hofland (1777 - 1843)
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William Best ()
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Robert Blemmell Schnebbelie (1781 - 1847)
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Eliot Hodgkin (1905 - 1987)
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Anthony Levett-Prinsep (1908 - 1983)
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Yoko Ono Lennon (1933)
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Herbert Gurschner (1901 - 1975)
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Hugh Frazer (1795 - 1865)
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Maxwell Ashby Armfield (1881 - 1972)
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Gwyneth Johnstone (1915 - 2010)
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Patrick MacDowell (1799 - 1870)
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Thomas Houseago (1972)
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Creators Neoclassicism

Antonio-Cabral Beharano (1788 - 1861)
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1788 - 1861
Maximilian de Ring (1799 - 1873)
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1799 - 1873
Johann Joseph Geisser (1824 - 1894)
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1824 - 1894
John Pitman (1814 - 1841)
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1814 - 1841
William Stanley Haseltine (1835 - 1900)
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1835 - 1900
Charles Ferdinand Ceramano (1831 - 1909)
Charles Ferdinand Ceramano
1831 - 1909
Ernst Stückelberg (1831 - 1903)
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1831 - 1903
Wilhelm Bends (1804 - 1832)
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1804 - 1832
Franz Russ I (1817 - 1892)
Franz Russ I
1817 - 1892
Emmy Hantelmann (XIX century - ?)
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XIX century - ?
Martin Carlin (1730 - 1785)
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Hugh William Williams (1773 - 1829)
Hugh William Williams
1773 - 1829
Leonardo Alenza y Nieto (1807 - 1845)
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1807 - 1845
Franz Xaver Mandl (1812 - 1880)
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1812 - 1880
Peter Christian Skovgaard (1817 - 1875)
Peter Christian Skovgaard
1817 - 1875
Vasily Andreevich Tropinin (1776 - 1857)
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1776 - 1857
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