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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 Scott (1913 - 1989)
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John Wells (1907 - 2000)
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Ernest Leopold Sichel (1862 - 1941)
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Peter Phillips (1939)
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James Thornhill (1675 - 1734)
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Joseph Noel Paton (1821 - 1901)
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Thomas Lound (1801 - 1861)
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Arthur Boyd Houghton Houghton (1836 - 1874)
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Lorna Selim (1928 - 2021)
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Charles Lock Eastlake (1793 - 1865)
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Henry Stacy Marks (1829 - 1898)
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Samuel J. Herman (1936 - 2020)
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Ronald Searle (1920 - 2011)
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Philip Henry Jackson (1944)
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1944

Creators Neoclassicism

Theodor Kuchel (1819 - 1885)
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1819 - 1885
Rudolf Vollmar (1804 - 1846)
Rudolf Vollmar
1804 - 1846
Charles Despiau (1874 - 1946)
Charles Despiau
1874 - 1946
Johan Scherrewitz (1868 - 1951)
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1868 - 1951
Peter Franciscus Peters II (1818 - 1903)
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1818 - 1903
David Roentgen (1743 - 1807)
David Roentgen
1743 - 1807
Edward Burne-Jones (1833 - 1898)
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1833 - 1898
Govert van Emmerik (1808 - 1882)
Govert van Emmerik
1808 - 1882
George Edwards (1694 - 1773)
George Edwards
1694 - 1773
Georg Pezolt (1810 - 1878)
Georg Pezolt
1810 - 1878
Horace Wolcott Robbins (1842 - 1904)
Horace Wolcott Robbins
1842 - 1904
Jervis McEntee (1828 - 1891)
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1828 - 1891
Peter Becker (1828 - 1904)
Peter Becker
1828 - 1904
Charles Fairfax Murray (1849 - 1919)
Charles Fairfax Murray
1849 - 1919
Emanuel Leutze (1816 - 1868)
Emanuel Leutze
1816 - 1868
Afanasij Ivanovich Scheloumoff (1892 - 1983)
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1892 - 1983
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