Joseph Wright of Derby

Wright of Derby paints the Enlightenment by candlelight — a single hidden light source, faces ringed around an experiment or forge, and deep, dramatic darkness beyond.

Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797) was a painter from United Kingdom, associated with Romanticism.

Late-18th to 19th century — emotion, untamed nature, and the sublime valued over reason and order. Romanticism →

More Romanticism painters: Francisco Goya, Eugène Delacroix, J.M.W. Turner, Caspar David Friedrich.

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