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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 501,342 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Joseph Wright of Derby is the 457th most popular painter (down from 339th in 2019), the 1,001st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 765th in 2019) and the 14th 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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  • 59.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Joseph Wright of Derby ranks 457 out of 1,421. Before him are Karel Appel, Vasily Surikov, Parrhasius, Jan Lievens, Bernard van Orley, and Heinz Linge. After him are Dirck van Baburen, Anna Maria van Schurman, Anselm Feuerbach, Geertgen tot Sint Jans, Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, and Jan van Scorel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1734, Joseph Wright of Derby ranks 11. Before him are Taksin, François-Joseph Gossec, Wolfgang von Kempelen, Anna Göldi, Sophie of France, and Charles Alexandre de Calonne. After him are Shahrokh Shah, Nicolas-Edme Rétif, Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec, Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière, Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski, 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, Vilna Gaon, Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, and Lazare Hoche. After him are Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, Horace Walpole, Olaudah Equiano, Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec, Molla Panah Vagif, and Pasquale Anfossi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joseph Wright of Derby ranks 1,001 out of 7,765. Before him are Alasdair MacIntyre (1929), Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin (1914), James Stirling (1926), Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire (1477), Stephen Frears (1941), and Charlotte Gainsbourg (1971). After him are Honor Blackman (1925), Warren Hastings (1732), Anna Atkins (1799), Thomas Cavendish (1560), Ida Noddack (1896), and Freeman Dyson (1923).

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Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, Joseph Wright of Derby ranks 14. Before him are Leonora Carrington (1917), Richard Hamilton (1922), William Holman Hunt (1827), Frederic Leighton (1830), John Tenniel (1820), and Edmund Leighton (1852). After him are Thomas Cole (1801), Thomas Lawrence (1769), John William Godward (1861), Evelyn De Morgan (1855), David Roberts (1796), and John Martin (1789).

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