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Joseph Wright of Derby

1734 - 1797

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Joseph Wright (3 September 1734 – 29 August 1797), styled Joseph Wright of Derby, was an English landscape and portrait painter. He has been acclaimed as "the first professional painter to express the spirit of the Industrial Revolution". Wright is notable for his use of tenebrism, an exaggerated form of the better known chiaroscuro effect, which emphasizes the contrast of light and dark, and for his paintings of candle-lit subjects. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Wright of Derby has received more than 534,259 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Joseph Wright of Derby is the 576th most popular painter (down from 456th in 2019), the 1,118th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,000th in 2019) and the 16th most popular British Painter.

Joseph Wright of Derby is most famous for his paintings of the effects of light and color.

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  • 530k

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  • 58.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Joseph Wright of Derby ranks 576 out of 2,023. Before him are Pierre Alechinsky, Joachim von Sandrart, Bernardo Strozzi, Émile Friant, Frederic Leighton, and Jules Bastien-Lepage. After him are Nadežda Petrović, Maria Reiter, Heinrich Füger, Andrea Pozzo, Joos van Cleve, and Louis-Léopold Boilly.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1734, Joseph Wright of Derby ranks 12. Before him are Cardinal de Rohan, Anna Göldi, Wolfgang von Kempelen, Grigory Orlov, Charles Alexandre de Calonne, and Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière. After him are Shahrokh Shah, George Romney, Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski, Frederick Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec, and Louis François Joseph, Prince of Conti. Among people deceased in 1797, Joseph Wright of Derby ranks 12. Before him are Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar, James Hutton, Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern, Lazare Hoche, Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, and Vilna Gaon. After him are Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, Horace Walpole, Pasquale Anfossi, Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec, and Olaudah Equiano.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joseph Wright of Derby ranks 1,118 out of 8,785. Before him are Colin Dexter (1930), Frederic Leighton (1830), Sydney Chaplin (1885), Colin McRae (1968), Hugh Griffith (1912), and Henry Royce (1863). After him are Charles Spearman (1863), Samuel Bellamy (1689), Bob Paisley (1919), Johannes de Sacrobosco (1195), Taron Egerton (1989), and Elizabeth Siddal (1829).

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Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, Joseph Wright of Derby ranks 16. Before him are Thomas Cole (1801), Thomas Lawrence (1769), Richard Hamilton (1922), Edmund Leighton (1852), John Tenniel (1820), and Frederic Leighton (1830). After him are John William Godward (1861), Evelyn De Morgan (1855), George Romney (1734), Arthur Rackham (1867), John Martin (1789), and George Stubbs (1724).

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