Joseph Wright of Derby Works Online
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Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Derby Museum and Art Gallery, UK
27 works displayed online
Joseph Wright of Derby at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Matlock Tor by Moonlight, 1778/80
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Firework Display at the Castel Sant' Angelo in Rome (La Girandola), 1779
The Iron Forge Viewed from Without, 1773
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
John Whetham of Kirklington, 1779
Penelope Unraveling Her Web, 1783
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Joseph Wright of Derby at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Lake Nemi, Sunset, 1790
Joseph Wright of Derby at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 
National Gallery, London, UK
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump
Mr and Mrs Thomas Coltman
Joseph Wright of Derby at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
6 works by Joseph Wright of Derby
The Royal Collection, London, UK
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Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Dovedale by Moonlight
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
The Lake of Albano, 1790
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick
Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, California
Edward Becher Leacroft of Wirksworth, ca.1762-63
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Denver Art Museum / Berger Collection, Colorado
2 works online
Five College Museums Collections Database, Massachusetts
Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, England
Portrait of Richard Arkwright
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Holburne Museum of Art, Bath, England
The Dead Soldier, ca.1789
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Cottage on Fire, 1786-87
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
2 works online
National Museums Liverpool, UK
Richard Gildart
National Museums Liverpool, UK
The Annual Girandola
National Museums Liverpool, UK
Mrs Frances Hesketh
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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2 works by Joseph Wright of Derby online
Ringling Museum of Art, Florida
Moonlight Landscape, ca.1785
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Mr. Robert Gwillym, 1766
Mrs. Robert Gwillym, 1766
Sheffield Galleries & Museums, UK
Landscape with Dale Abbey, 1785
Southampton City Art Gallery, England
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
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Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Huntington Library, California
Tyne & Wear Museums, England
Portrait of Miss Jane Monck, 1760
Tyne & Wear Museums Database, England
3 paintings online
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
9 works
D'Outre Manche Database of British Art in French Public Collections
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Joseph Wright of Derby in the Art Renewal Center
Joseph Wright of Derby at CGFA
Google Art Project NEW!
Vesuvius in Eruption, with a View over the Islands in the Bay of Naples (Tate Britain, London)
Joseph Wright of Derby at The Athenaeum 
2 works online
Joseph Wright of Derby in the Web Gallery of Art
WebMuseum
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
PBase Photo Sharing
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State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
The History Project at U.C. Davis
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Andrew Clayton-Payne Gallery, London, UK -- Notable past sales
Portrait of Susanna Leigh
Ben Elwes Fine Art, London, UK -- Notable past sales
The Dead Soldier
UK Government Art Collection
Why We Think Nature is Beautiful
Illustrated article by Eugene C. Hargrove
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Joseph Wright of Derby 
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
Portrait of Mrs. Dorothy Hodges, ca.1775-77
Arcadian Galleries
Biography of the artist
Artnet Magazine
Moonlit Landscape, 1785
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Sir Brooke Boothby, 1781
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