The London museum highlights the 18th-century painter’s rich, shadowy tableaux, emblematic of their age of intellectual ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768) is a spectacular, life-and-death composition - Getty Images A Philosopher Lecturing ...

A “remarkable” self-portrait by world-renowned artist Joseph Wright of Derby has been acquired in a “triumph” for the world’s largest collection of his work, having been privately owned for 250 years.

The scientist in the remarkable painting “An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump” (1768)—which is now the focus of an exhibition, “Science and the Sublime: A Masterpiece by Joseph Wright of Derby,” ...

At a certain moment near the midpoint of the 18th century, British culture began to grow weary of its own augustness. After two generations, the eternal sunshine of Alexander Pope, the enlightened wit ...

Installation view of Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, in "Science and the Sublime: A Masterpiece by Joseph Wright of Derby." Two beloved paintings have swapped ...

Joseph Wright (1734-97), known from his home city in the East Midlands as Wright of Derby, is one of the most interesting and unusual as well as talented painters of his generation in Britain, but he ...

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An exhibition of an artist that "puts Derby on the map" is under way at the National Gallery. The display in London is the first major exhibition of candlelight paintings created by 18th Century ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1766 a talented and ambitious ...

Joseph Wright, styled ‘Wright of Derby’ was born the son of an attorney in 1734. He spent three years training under the fashionable artist Thomas Hudson. Hudson was most prolific between 1740 and ...