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|  | | | Artist of the Week - Joseph Wright of Derby
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Joseph Wright (September 3, 1734 - August 29, 1797), styled 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."[1] He was born in Irongate, Derby, the son of an attorney, who was afterwards town-clerk. Deciding to become a painter, he went to London in 1751 and for two years studied under Thomas Hudson, the master of Joshua Reynolds.
After painting portraits for a while at Derby, he again worked as an
assistant to Hudson for fifteen months. He then settled in Derby and
varied his work in portraiture by the production of the subjects with
strong chiaroscuro under artificial light, with which his name is chiefly associated, and by landscape painting.
 Joseph Wright of Derby
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