Joseph wright

Self Portrait at 19 years of age (1753)- Derby Museum & Art Gallery - this is a very assured painting for such a young man. We hav...

The J. Paul Getty Museum announces that the acquisition of Joseph Wright of Derby's "Two Boys with a Bladder" will proceed, following the granting of an export license by the Arts Council of England.

In a late 19th-century anarchist newspaper, John Tresch uncovers an unusual piece, purported to be from the pen of Louise Michel, telling of a cross-dressing revolutionary unhinged at the helm of some kind of sociopolitical astrolabe.

The genius of Joseph Wright of Derby will come under the spotlight later this year when one of the artist’s most important candlelit pictures, and one of his last major works remaining in private hands, appears at auction at Sotheby’s in London.

Vivian Gornick describes the journey to self-possession as one of unimaginable pain and loneliness. “It is the re-creation in women of the experiencing self that is the business of contemporary feminism: the absence of that self is the slave that must be squeezed out drop by drop,” she says, quoting Chekhov, in “Toward a Definition …

Joseph Wright of Derby (English painter) 1734 - 1797, A Young Girl Reading a Letter, with an Old Man Reading over Her Shoulder, ca 1768-70.

Vesuvius from Portici, ca.1774-76 by Joseph Wright of Derby - Buy Vesuvius from Portici, ca.1774-76 Paper Art Print - The Huntington Custom Prints - Custom Prints and Framing

Joseph Wright of Derby, Derby 1734 - 1797 Firework Display at Castel Sant‘Angelo in Rome aka La Girandola (1779) Eremitage, St. Petersburg Joseph Wright was enthralled by the use of lighting efffects in painting, creating special mood and atmosphere in his canvases. He visited Rome in 1774 - 75 and was most impressed by the several firework displays (girandolas) held there each year, for instance during Holy Week and on the eve of the festival of SS Peter and Paul. These fireworks were…