Joseph Wright of Derby was one of the first people to document public scientific lectures during the Enlightenment period.
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Wright of Derby: From the Shadows, National Gallery review – an exhibition that illuminates the shadows of the enlightenment age
As the National Gallery reunites some of Wright of Derby’s scientific masterpieces for the first time in 35 years, the show ...
Two spectacular paintings are at the heart of this beautifully presented new exhibition at the National Gallery. Executed by Joseph Wright of Derby, a mainstay of 18th-century British art, The Air ...
As winter's shadows fall across the land, it's an appropriate moment for the National Gallery to open an exhibition by the ...
Joseph Wright of Derby is a painter “all too often underserved in accounts of British art”, said Mark Hudson in The ...
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 ...
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