Category: Biographies
CANDLE-LIGHT SUBJECTS.--“THE GLADIATOR” PICTURE.--COMMENCES TO PAINT LANDSCAPES IN 1772.--LIST OF PICTURES EXHIBITED AT THE SOCIETY OF ARTISTS’ ROOMS.--LIST OF PICTURES EXHIBITED AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY.--WRIGHT HOLDS AN EXHIBITION IN 1785, OF HIS OWN WORKS, IN LONDON.--HIS GENER...
CANDLE-LIGHT SUBJECTS.--“THE GLADIATOR” PICTURE.--COMMENCES TO PAINT LANDSCAPES IN 1772.--LIST OF PICTURES EXHIBITED AT THE SOCIETY OF ARTISTS’ ROOMS.--LIST OF PICTURES EXHIBITE...
3. CHAPTER IV.4. CHAPTER V.THE BISHOP AND THE PAINTER.--SETTLES AT BATH.--LETTER TO HIS SISTER “NANCY.”--PRICES OF PORTRAITS.--WRIGHT’S METHOD OF MAKING UP HIS PALETTE.--RETURNS TO DERBY.--LODGES WITH THE...
5. CHAPTER VI.WRIGHT’S SECESSION FROM THE ROYAL ACADEMY.--J. L. PHILIPS.--THE MESSRS. REDGRAVE’S CRITICISMS ON THE SECESSION AND UPON WRIGHT’S WORKS.--HAYLEY’S POEM.--ANTHONY PASQUIN.--LETTER...
6. CHAPTER VII.MENTION OF SOME IMPORTANT PICTURES.--THE CUSTOM HOUSE AUTHORITIES AND “THE CAPTIVE” PICTURE.--THE “DEAD SOLDIER” AND HEATH THE ENGRAVER.--“DESTRUCTION OF THE FLOATING BATTERIES...
7. CHAPTER VIII.8. CHAPTER IX.DEATH OF MRS. WRIGHT.--HE REMOVES TO QUEEN STREET, DERBY.--HIS LAST ILLNESS AND DEATH.--MR. J. LEIGH PHILIPS ON THE CHARACTER OF WRIGHT.--SALE OF HIS PICTURES IN LONDON AND DERB...
9. CHAPTER I.Joseph Wright, like his famous contemporaries, Reynolds and Wilson, belonged to the great middle-class, as may be seen from the pedigree appended to this chapter. Wright could r...
10. CHAPTER II.Young Wright early manifested a taste for mechanics. His brother, Richard, writing to a friend some years afterwards, thus alludes to his leisure employments. “At an early time...
11. CHAPTER III.CANDLE-LIGHT SUBJECTS.--“THE GLADIATOR” PICTURE.--COMMENCES TO PAINT LANDSCAPES IN 1772.--LIST OF PICTURES EXHIBITED AT THE SOCIETY OF ARTISTS’ ROOMS.--LIST OF PICTURES EXHIBITE...
12. Chapter VI., it will be seen that his paintings were not treated withOne characteristic worthy of notice in Wright’s portraiture, is the life-like and liquid look that pervades the eyes; he was also particularly happy in his treatment of the hand...
13. CHAPTER IV.“By the waggon yesterday I sent you in a box four pillar Candlesticks called Tooth & Egg, to be cleaned as silver. They _are_ what they _seem_ to be, w^{ch} if I mistake not you...
14. CHAPTER V.THE BISHOP AND THE PAINTER.--SETTLES AT BATH.--LETTER TO HIS SISTER “NANCY.”--PRICES OF PORTRAITS.--WRIGHT’S METHOD OF MAKING UP HIS PALETTE.--RETURNS TO DERBY.--LODGES WITH THE...
15. CHAPTER VI.WRIGHT’S SECESSION FROM THE ROYAL ACADEMY.--J. L. PHILIPS.--THE MESSRS. REDGRAVE’S CRITICISMS ON THE SECESSION AND UPON WRIGHT’S WORKS.--HAYLEY’S POEM.--ANTHONY PASQUIN.--LETTER...
16. CHAPTER VIIMENTION OF SOME IMPORTANT PICTURES.--THE CUSTOM HOUSE AUTHORITIES AND “THE CAPTIVE” PICTURE.--THE “DEAD SOLDIER” AND HEATH THE ENGRAVER.--“DESTRUCTION OF THE FLOATING BATTERIES...
17. Canto I., line 175, in the following lines--“So Wright’s bold pencil from Vesuvius’ height, Hurls his red lavas to the troubled night; From Calpe starts the intolerable flash, Skies burst in flames, and blazing oceans das...
18. CHAPTER VIII.“The Empress of Russia has taken into Her capital collection my two pictures of ‘Vesuvius’ & the ‘Girandolo,’ and given me 500 g^s for them which is a good reward accompanied wi...
19. CHAPTER IX.DEATH OF MRS. WRIGHT.--REMOVES TO QUEEN STREET, DERBY.--WRIGHT’S LAST ILLNESS AND DEATH.--MR. J. LEIGH PHILIPS ON THE CHARACTER OF WRIGHT.--SALE OF WRIGHT’S PICTURES IN LONDON A...