Joseph Wright of Derby

  • The first major British artist outside of London: Joseph Wright of Derby

    The first major British artist outside of London: Joseph Wright of Derby

    Self-Portrait, c.1780. Yale Center for British Art. I think we often think that, with the growth of culture and leisure in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, that the be-all and end-all is London (or, perhaps Bath). But, of course, this was not true. For starters, I want to share with you the first major British read more

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