Olga's Gallery
Joseph Wright of Derby
(1734-1797)
Biography
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Miravan Breaking Open the Tomb of His Ancestors. 1772. Oil on canvas. 127 x 101.6 cm. Derby Art Gallery, Derby, UK. 
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Rocks with Waterfall. c.1772. Oil on canvas. 80.7 x 109.2 cm. Private collection.
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Self-Portrait at the Age of About Forty. c.1772-3. Oil on canvas. 76.2 x 63.5. Private collection.
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An Iron Forge. 1772. Oil on canvas. 121.9 x 132.1 cm. Private collection.
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An Iron Forge Viewed from Without. 1773. Oil on canvas 105 x 140 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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The Earthstopper on the Banks of the Derwent. 1773. Oil on canvas. 96.5 x 120.6 cm. Derby Art Gallery, Derby, UK.
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The Old Man and Death. Exhibited 1774. Oil on canvas. 101.6 x 127. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, USA.
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The Captive, from Sterne. 1774. Oil on canvas. 102 x 127.5 cm. Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia Canada.
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Part of the Colosseum Seen in Sunlight. c.1774-5. Pen and brown ink and wash on paper. 38.1 x 51.7 cm. Derby Art Gallery, Derby, UK.
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Inside the Arcade of the Colosseum. c.1774-5. Pen and brown ink and wash on paper. 37.8 x 49 cm. Private collection.
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Vesuvius in Eruption. 1774. Gouache on paper. 32.4 x 46.7 cm. Derby Art Gallery, Derby, UK.
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Study of the Terrain near Vesuvius. 1774. Pencil on paper. 31.1 x 45. Derby Art Gallery, Derby, UK.
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A Cavern, Morning. 1774. Oil on canvas. 101.6 x 127 cm. Private collection.
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A Cavern, Evening. 1774. Oil on canvas. 101.6 x 127 cm. Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, USA.
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An Eruption of Vesuvius, Seen from Portici. c.1774-6. Oil on canvas. 101.6 x 127 cm. University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK.
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A View of Mount Etna and a Nearby Town. c.1775. Oil on canvas. 66 x 88.5 cm. Tate Gallery, London, UK.
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Study of Melancholy Girl. 1775. later used for Maria of 1781. Pen and grey ink over faint preliminary pencil outlines on paper. 55 x 41.3 cm. British Museum, London, UK.
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Study for "The Old Man Grieving over His Ass ", from Sterne. c.1775. Pen and black ink over traces of graphic on paper. 55.4 x 34.9 cm. Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, USA.
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Study of John Staveley's Head for Wright's Second Version of "The Captive, from Sterne". 1775-7. Oil on paper. 47.5 x 36.2. Private Collection.
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John Milnes. 1776. Oil on canvas. 127 x 101 cm. Louvre, Paris, France.
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Vesuvius in Eruption, with a View over the Islands in the Bay of Naples. c.1776-80. Oil on canvas. 122 x 176.4. Private collection.
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The Annual Girandola, at the Castle of St. Angelo, Rome. Exhibited 1776. Oil on canvas. 137.5 x 173. Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK.
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Maria, from Sterne. 1777. Oil on canvas. 100.3 x 125.7 cm. Private Collection.
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Edwin, from Dr Beattie's. 1777-8. Oil on canvas. 160 x 116.8. Private collection.
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Vesuvius in Eruption. c.1777-80. Oil on canvas. 124.4 x 180.3. Private collection.
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Richard Cheslyn. 1777. Oil on canvas. 127 x 101.6 cm. Private collection.
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Thomas and Joseph Pickford as Children. c.1777-9. Oil on canvas. Private collection.
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