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Joseph Wright of Derby: Academy by Lamplight  wikidata:Q12898572 reasonator:Q12898572
Artist
Joseph Wright of Derby  (1734–1797)  wikidata:Q214062
 
Joseph Wright of Derby
Alternative names
Joseph Wright
Description English painter and drawer
Date of birth/death 3 September 1734 Edit this at Wikidata 29 August 1797 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Derby Derby
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Derby, London
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artist QS:P170,Q214062
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Title
Academy by Lamplight
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Date circa 1768
date QS:P571,+1768-69-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 127 cm (50 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 101 cm (39.7 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+127U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+101U174728
institution QS:P195,Q6352575
Accession number
B1973.1.66 (Yale Center for British Art) Edit this at Wikidata
Notes The central feature is Nymph With a Shell, a well-known and widely copied Hellenistic sculpture (now in the Louvre). At the time of this painting, Wright's friend PeterPerez Burdett was starting the first Art's Academy in Liverpool.
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