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Joseph Wright of Derby
Joseph Wright, styled Joseph Wright of Derby, was an English painter who specialised in portrait painting and landscape art. He has been acclaimed as "the first professional painter to express the spirit of the Industrial Revolution".
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culture · English painter (1734–1797) · painter · artist · landscape painter · portraitist · architectural drafter · also Joseph Wright of Derby, Joseph Wright, Of Derby Wright, Joseph, of Derby Wright, Joseph Wright of Darby, Wright of Derby
Born 3 September 1734 · Died 29 August 1797 · Q214062
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1997· 1 entry
His tombstone was placed at the side of Derby Cathedral, and in 2002, it was brought inside and wall-mounted in a prominent place near the well-visited memorial to Bess of Hardwick
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1968· 1 entry
To make way for a major new section of the inner ring road cutting through the town centre, and its site now lies beneath the road
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1797· 1 entry
Died 1797-08-29.
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1734· 1 entry
Born 1734-09-03.
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