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See also:WRIGHT, See also:JOSEPH (1734-1797) , styled Wright of See also:Derby, See also:English subject, landscape and portrait painter, was See also:born at Derby on the 3rd of See also:September 1734, the son of an See also:attorney, who was afterwards See also:town-clerk. Deciding to become a painter, he went to See also:London in 1751 and for two years studied under See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Hudson, the See also:master of See also:Reynolds. After See also:painting portraits for a while at Derby, he again placed himself for fifteen months under his former master. He then settled in Derby, and varied his See also:work in See also:portraiture by the See also:production of the subjects seen under artificial See also:light with which his name is chiefly associated, and by landscape painting. He married in 1773, and in the end of that See also:year he visited See also:Italy, where he remained till 1775. While at See also:Naples he witnessed an eruption of See also:Vesuvius, which formed the subject of many of his subsequent pictures. On his return from Italy he established himself at See also:Bath as a portrait-painter; but See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting with little encouragement he returned to Derby, where he spent the See also:rest of his See also:life. He was a frequent contributor to the exhibitions of the Society of Artists, and to those of the Royal See also:Academy, of which he was elected an See also:associate in 1781 and a full member in 1784. He, however, declined the latter See also:honour on See also:account of a slight which he believed that he had received, and severed his See also:official connexion with the Academy, though he continued to contribute to the exhibitions from 1783 till 1794. He died at Derby on the 2gth of See also:August 1797. Wright's portraits are frequently defective in See also:drawing, and without quality or variety of handling, while their flesh tints are often hard. He is seen at his best in his subjects of artificial light, of which the " See also:Orrery " (1766), the See also:property of the See also:corporation of Derby, and the " See also:Air-See also:pump " (1768), in the See also:National See also:Gallery, are excellent examples. His " Old See also:Man and See also:Death " (1774) is also a striking and individual production. An See also:exhibition of Wright's See also:works was brought together at Derby in 1883, and twelve of his pictures were shown in the See also:winter exhibition of the Royal Academy in 1886.
His See also:biography, by See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Bemrose, was published in 1885.
End of Article: WRIGHT, JOSEPH (1734-1797)
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