Joseph Wright of Derby

Joseph Wright of Derby was an English artist born on September 3, 1734. Wright of Derby contributed to the Romantic and Baroque movements and died on August 29, 1797. Get notified when Joseph Wright of Derby's biography is complete:

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes

I didn't know Picasso but he knew me

1746-1828

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Every age has its Star Boy — might as well be J.M.W. Turner

1775-1851

Gustave Doré

Father of Horror, Father of Fantasy

1832-1883

Caravaggio

How a murderer invented Baroque painting

1571-1610

Rembrandt van Rijn

Your sins and your good deeds will leave a mark

1606-1669

Judith Leyster

Jovial portraitist forgotten for 200 years

1609-1660

1701 1800

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Joseph Wright of Derby

A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery

A lighthouse on fire at night

A Blacksmith's Shop

The Alchemist

Iron Forge Viewed from Without

The Annual Girandola at the Castel Sant’Angelo, Rome

Lake by Moonlight with Castle on Hill

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Gustave Doré

Caravaggio

Rembrandt van Rijn

Judith Leyster

A disgraced silversmith, last of a dynasty

We're all young and hot — let's make out

Renaissance painter wins the internet

A feminist prodigy charms the European elite