1785 In Art
Events from the year 1785 in art. Events *Joseph Wright of Derby holds a one-man exhibition in London, having severed his official connection with the Royal Academy. Works *Nicolas Benjamin Delapierre – ''Portrait of a Seated Gentleman'' *Joseph Duplessis – :File:BenFranklinDuplessis.jpg, Portrait of Benjamin Franklin (approximate date) *Thomas Gainsborough **Mr and Mrs William Hallett ('The Morning Walk')' **'':File:Thomas Gainsborough 015.jpg, Portrait of Mrs. Sarah Siddons'' *Anton Graff – :File:Graff Artistsfamily.jpg, Self-portrait with his family *Hugh Douglas Hamilton – ''Lord Edward Stuart'' *Jean-Antoine Houdon – Portrait bust of George Washington *Adélaïde Labille-Guiard – '':File:Labille-Guiard, Self-portrait with two pupils.jpg, Self-portrait with two pupils'' *Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine – '':File:Zamor portrait by Lemoine.jpg, Portrait of Zamor'' *Isidro Lorea – Main altarpiece of Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral (carved wood) *Sir Joshua Re ...
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Joseph Wright Of Derby
Joseph Wright (3 September 1734 – 29 August 1797), styled Joseph 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". Wright is notable for his use of tenebrism, an exaggerated form of the better known chiaroscuro effect, which emphasizes the contrast of light and dark, and for his paintings of candle-lit subjects. His paintings of the birth of science out of alchemy, often based on the meetings of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, a group of scientists and industrialists living in the English Midlands, are a significant record of the struggle of science against religious values in the period known as the Age of Enlightenment. Many of Wright's paintings and drawings are owned by Derby City Council, and are on display at the Derby Museum and Art Gallery. Life Joseph Wright was born in Irongate, Derby, to a respectable family of lawyers. He was the third ...
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