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Life of JOSEPH WRIGHT


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  English painter, generally known as Wright of Derby, who was a pioneer in the artistic treatment of industrial subjects. He was also the best European painter of artificial light of his day.
  Wright was trained as a portrait painter by Thomas Hudson in the 1750s. Wright s home was Derby, one of the great centres of the birth of the Industrial Revolution, and his depictions of scenes lit by moonlight or candlelight combine the realism of the new machinery with the romanticism involved in its application to industry and science. His pictures of technological subjects, partly inspired by the Dutch followers of Caravaggio, date from 1763 to 1773; the most famous are The Air Pump (1768) and The Orrery (c. 1763-65). Wright was also noted for his portraits of English Midlands industrialists and intellectuals.
  
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Experiment with the Air Pump
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Earthstopper at the Bank of Derwent
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View of the Lake of Nemi
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A Philosopher Lecturing with a Mechanical Planetary
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Miravan Opening the Grave of his Forefathers
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Landscape with Rainbow
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Indian Widow
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