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Joseph Wright of Derby: An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump, 1768
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Joseph Wright of Derby

[English Romantic Painter, 1734-1797]

• Relationships: Studied under Thomas Hudson.
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Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Notable SiteArt Institute of Chicago

Notable SiteDerby Museum and Art Gallery, UK
27 works displayed online

Notable SiteJoseph Wright of Derby at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

Notable SiteFine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Illustration from Shakespeare's The Tempest
The Dead Soldier
, 1789

Notable SiteFitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK

Notable SiteHermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Firework Display at the Castel Sant' Angelo in Rome (La Girandola), 1779
The Iron Forge Viewed from Without, 1773

Notable SiteJ. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
John Whetham of Kirklington, 1779
Penelope Unraveling Her Web, 1783

Notable SiteKunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German)  

Notable SiteJoseph Wright of Derby at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Lake Nemi, Sunset, 1790

Notable SiteMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston  

Notable SiteJoseph Wright of Derby at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
6 works by Joseph Wright of Derby

Notable SiteNational Gallery, London, UK   NEW!
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump
Mr and Mrs Thomas Coltman


Notable SiteThe Royal Collection, London, UK
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Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Dovedale by Moonlight

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   NEW!
Portrait of Richard Arkwright

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts   NEW!

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

National Museums and Galleries of Wales
The Lake of Albano, 1790

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

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   NEW!

 
Pictures from Image Archives:
Notable SiteJoseph Wright of Derby in the Art Renewal Center

Notable SiteJoseph Wright of Derby at CGFA  

Notable SiteJoseph Wright of Derby at The Athenaeum  
2 works online

Notable SiteJoseph Wright of Derby in the Web Gallery of Art  

Notable SiteJoseph Wright of Derby in the WebMuseum  

Notable SiteWikimedia Commons Image Database  

Notable SiteWorld 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   NEW!

The History Project at U.C. Davis   NEW!  

 
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:
Notable SiteEncyclopedia Britannica complete article on Joseph Wright of Derby  
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Notable SiteGrove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)  

Notable SiteUnion List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Arcadian Galleries
Biography of the artist

Artnet Magazine
Moonlit Landscape, 1785

Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)   NEW!  

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Sir Brooke Boothby, 1781


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Wright of Derby: An Eruption of Vesuvius, seen from Portici
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A Grotto in the Kingdom of Naples, with Banditti
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