Portrait of Colonel Charles Heathcote
at Cleveland Museum of Art
Joseph Wright of Derby
British1734–1797
About
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".
Notable works
Virgil's Tomb by Moonlight, with Silius Italicus Declaiming
at Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dovedale by Moonlight
at Wallraf–Richartz Museum
Eruption of Vesuvius 1771 seen from Portici
at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Vesuvius in Eruption
at Hamburger Kunsthalle
Portrait of Rev D'Ewes Coke, his wife Hannah and Daniel Parker Coke
at Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Vue de Florence et de l'Arno
at Musée Fabre
Penelope Unraveling Her Web
at J. Paul Getty Museum
Anne Borrow (d.1799)
at Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Thomas Borrow (1709–1786)
at Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Works in the collection
94 works
Portrait of Colonel Charles Heathcote
at Cleveland Museum of Art
Virgil's Tomb by Moonlight, with Silius Italicus Declaiming
at Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dovedale by Moonlight
at Wallraf–Richartz Museum
Eruption of Vesuvius 1771 seen from Portici
at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Vesuvius in Eruption
at Hamburger Kunsthalle
Portrait of Rev D'Ewes Coke, his wife Hannah and Daniel Parker Coke
at Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Vue de Florence et de l'Arno
at Musée Fabre
Penelope Unraveling Her Web
at J. Paul Getty Museum
Anne Borrow (d.1799)
at Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Thomas Borrow (1709–1786)
at Derby Museum and Art Gallery
More by Joseph Wright of Derby in institutions
Derby Museum and Art Gallery
City of Derby, United Kingdom
Walker Art Gallery
Liverpool, United Kingdom
Fitzwilliam Museum
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Saint Louis Art Museum
St. Louis, United States
National Gallery of Victoria
City of Melbourne, Australia
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Houston, United States
Manchester Art Gallery
Manchester, United Kingdom
J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
Denver Art Museum
Denver County, United States
Yale University Art Gallery
New Haven, United States
National Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C., United States
Kenwood House
Hampstead, United Kingdom
National Museum Cardiff
Castle, United Kingdom
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
San Marino, United States
National Gallery Prague
Czech Republic
Musée Fabre
Montpellier, France
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Manhattan, United States
Hamburger Kunsthalle
Hamburg-Mitte, Germany
Tate Britain
City of Westminster, United Kingdom
Louvre Museum
Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, France
Milwaukee Art Museum
Milwaukee, United States
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Auckland Region, New Zealand
Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Wallraf–Richartz Museum
Altstadt-Nord, Germany
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
Art Gallery of South Australia
Adelaide, Australia
