Joseph Wright of Derby

1734–1797 · Neoclassicism

Joseph Wright, styled Joseph Wright of Derby, was an English painter who specialised in portrait painting and landscape art. He has been acclaimed as "the first professional painter to express the spirit of the Industrial Revolution".

39 paintings

• The Gulf of Salerno (1783–85)
• Portrait of Colonel Charles Heathcote (c. 1771–72)
• Portrait of Old John, Head Waiter at the King's Head Inn in Derby (1780)
• Vesuvius in Eruption, with a View over the Islands in the Bay of Naples
• Academy by Lamplight (1769)
• A Journalist Lecturing on the Orrery (1766)
• The Alchemist Discovering Phosphorus (1771)
• The Corinthian Maid (1784)
• Lake Nemi, sunset (1790)
• The Synnot children (1781)
• Self-portrait (1766)
• Lady Oxenden (1755)
• Virgil's Tomb by Moonlight, with Silius Italicu (1779)
• Dr. Richard Wright (1785)
• Lake Nemi (1790)
• Studies of a Classical Bust (1774)
• Derwent Water, with Skiddaw in the distance (1795)
• Matlock Dale, looking toward Black Rock Escarpment (1780)
• Portrait of a Man, Known as the "Indian Captain" (1767)
• Lake Albano (1790)
• Dovedale (1786)
• Self-Portrait (1780)
• The Dead Soldier (1789)
• A Lake by Moonlight (1780)
• William and Margaret from Percy's 'Reliques of Ancient English Poetry' (1785)
• Matlock Tor by Moonlight (1778)
• The Blacksmith's Shop (1771)
• Landscape with a Rainbow (1793)
• Fleetwood Hesketh (1769)
• Portrait of Mr. William Chase, Sr. (1762)
• Mr. Robert Gwillym (1766)
• Peter Perez Burdett and his First Wife Hannah (1765)
• Penelope Unraveling Her Web (1785)
• Two Boys with a Bladder (1767)
• John Whetham of Kirklington (1779)
• Reverend Basil Bury Beridge (1774)
• Grotto by the Seaside in the Kingdom of Naples with Banditti, Sunset (1778)
• Miss Mary Tunaley (1790)
• An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768)