Joseph Wright of Derby, was an English landscape and portrait painter. He has been acclaimed as "the first professional painter to express the spirit of the Industrial Revolution". Wright is notable for his use of tenebrism effect, which emphasizes the contrast of light and dark, and for his paintings of candle-lit subjects.
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Wright of Derby Prints
- An Academy by Lamplight
- Anne Bateman, later Mrs John Gisbourne
- Belisarius Receiving Alms
- Benjamin Franklin
- A Blacksmith's Shop
- The Captive
- Cavern, near Naples
- A Conversation between Girls, or Two Girls with their Black Servant
- A Cottage on Fire
- The Dead Soldier
- Derwent Water with Skiddaw in the Distance
- The Earthstopper on the Banks of the Derwent
- Edwin, from Dr Beattie's Minstrel
- An Eruption of Vesuvius, seen from Portici
- An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump
- A Girl reading a Letter by Candlelight, with a Young Man peering over her Shoulder
- A Girl reading a Letter, with an Old Man reading over her Shoulder
- A Grotto in the Gulf of Salerno, Sunset
- A Grotto in the Gulf of Salernum, with the figure of Julia, banished from Rome
- A Grotto in the Kingdom of Naples, with Banditti
- A Grotto with the Figure of Julia
- Portrait of a Man, known as the Indian Captain
- The Indian Widow
- James and Mary Shuttleworth with one of their Daughters
- Jedediah Strutt
- Lake Albano
- A Lake by Moonlight
- Lake Nemi at Sunset
- Lake Scene
- Landscape with a Rainbow
- Maria, from A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne
- View in Matlock Dale, Looking Towards Black Rock Escarpment
- Matlock Tor by Moonlight
- Miravan Breaking Open the Tomb of his Ancestors
- Miss Kitty Dressing
- Mr and Mrs Thomas Coltman about to Set Out on a Ride
- Penelope Unravelling Her Web
- A Philosopher by Lamplight
- Portrait of a Man, 1768
- Portrait of Anna Ashton as a Shepherdess
- Portrait of Dorothy Beridge, nee Gladwin
- Portrait of Dorothy Hodges
- Portrait of Dorothy Hope
- Portrait of John Milnes, 12th Duke of St Albans
- Portrait of Mr William Chase, Sr.
- Portrait of Richard Arkwright
- Portrait of William Stafford
- The Prisoner
- The Reverend and Mrs Thomas Gisborne, of Yoxhall Lodge, Leicestershire
- The Reverend D'Ewes Coke, his wife Hannah and Daniel Parker Coke, MP
- Reverend John Pickering
- Romeo and Juliet, The Tomb Scene (Noise again! then I'll be brief)
- Rydal Waterfall
- Samuel Crompton
- Self Portrait, 1780
- Sir Richard Arkwright
- The Storm, Antigonus Pursued by the Bear (from The Winters Tale, Act III, Scene III)
- Sunset on the Coast near Naples
- Susanna Hope
- Thomas and Joseph Pickford as Children
- Portrait of the Revd.Thomas Wilson and his Adoptive Daughter Miss Maccaulay
- Vesuvius from Posillipo
- Virgil's Tomb by Moonlight with Silius Italicus
- William and Margaret from the Reliques of Ancient English Poetry by Thomas Percy
- William Rastall