Joseph Wright of Derby (1734 - 1797)

• Was an English painter.
• Many of Wright's paintings and drawings are owned by Derby City Council, and are on display at the Derby Museum and Art Gallery.
• Joseph Wright was born in Irongate, Derby, to a respectable family of lawyers. 
• He was the third of five children of Hannah Brookes and John Wright, an attorney and the town clerk of Derby.
• Joseph had two elder brothers, John and Richard Wright.
• Deciding to become a painter as a seventeen-year old youth Wright went to London in 1751 and for two years studied under Thomas Hudson, the master of Joshua Reynolds.

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