Wright’s painting, “An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump,” dates from 1768, approximately the same time as “The Blue Boy,” painted around 1770.

The scientist in the remarkable painting “An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump” (1768)—which is now the focus of an exhibition, “Science and the Sublime: A Masterpiece by Joseph Wright ...

Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797), An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, 1768, oil oncanvas,72 x 96 1/16 in. Presented by Edward Tyrrell, 1863.

We may speculate that one of the reasons for which Wright moved to Liverpool was a sense that he was not sufficiently valued by his colleagues, whether in Derby or in London. Indeed, when the Royal ...

A monumental painting by Joseph Wright of Derby, sometimes called Britain’s “painter of the Industrial Revolution” and “painter of the Enlightenment,” is under negotiation for loan to ...