The J. Paul Getty Museum

Exhibitions

Pictures Painted by J. Wright, of Derby (1785)

• Mr. Robins's Rooms (London), 1785

European Museum 1814 Exhibition (1814)

• Unknown, 1814

European Museum 1817 Exhibition (1817)

• Unknown, 1817

Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734-1797 (January 1955)

• Smith College Museum of Art (Northampton), January to January 1955

Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734 - 1797 (March 1 to March 26, 1960)

• Durlacher Brothers (New York), March 1 to March 26, 1960

Joseph Wright of Derby (February 7 to November 25, 1990)

• Tate Britain (London), February 7 to April 22, 1990
• Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (Paris), May 17 to July 23, 1990
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), September 6 to November 25, 1990

Antiquity Revived: Neoclassical Art in the Eighteenth Century (December 2, 2010 to May 30, 2011)

• Musée du Louvre (Paris), December 2, 2010 to February 14, 2011
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 20 to May 30, 2011

Ulisse. L'arte e il mito (Ulysses. Art and Legend) (February 14 to October 31, 2020)

• Musei San Domenico, Forli, February 14 to October 31, 2020

Bibliography

A Catalogue of Pictures, Painted by J. Wright, of Derby, and Exhibited at Mr. Robins's Rooms under the Great Piazza, Covent Garden (London: J. Barker, 1785), p. 6, no. 14.

Wilson, John, ed. The New Descriptive Catalogue and Plan of the European Museum, exh. cat. (London: G. Smeeton, 1814), p. 27, no. 432.

Wilson, John, ed. The Plan and New Descriptive Catalogue of the European Museum, King Street, St. James's Square, exh. cat. (London: G. Smeeton, 1817), p. 13, no. 91.

Jewitt, Llewellynn. "Wedgwood and Etruria: A History of the 'Etruria Works,' Their Founder and Productions." The Art Journal 3 (August 1864), p. 231.

Jewitt, Llewellyn. The Wedgwoods: Being a Life of Josiah Wedgwood (London: Virtue Brothers and Co., 1865), p. 287.

Bemrose, William. The Life and Works of Joseph Wright, A.R.A., Commonly Called 'Wright of Derby' (London: Bemrose & Sons, 1885), pp. 21, 123.

Vines, Sherard. The Course of English Classicism from the Tudor to the Victorian Age (London: Hogarth Press, 1930), p. 150.

Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734-1797, exh. cat. (Northampton: Smith College Museum of Art, 1955), unpaginated, no. 13.

Rosenblum, Robert. "The Origins of Painting: A Problem in the Iconography of Romantic Classicism." Art Bulletin 39, no. 4 (December 1957), pp. 279- 90.

Nicolson, Benedict, ed. Joseph Wright of Derby 1734-1797, exh. cat. (London: Tate Gallery, 1958), pp. 29-30.

Joseph Wright of Derby 1734-1797, exh. cat. (New York: Durlacher Brothers, 1960), unpaginated, no. 20.

Nicolson, Benedict. "Two Companion Pieces by Wright of Derby." Burlington Magazine 104, no. 708 (March 1962), pp. 113-17.

Irwin, David. English Neoclassical Art: Studies in Inspiration and Taste (London: Faber & Faber, 1966), p. 80.

Nicolson, Benedict. Joseph Wright of Derby, Painter of Light. 2 vols. (London: Paul Mellon Foundation for British Art, 1968), vol. 2, p. 153, pl. 242.

Nicolson, Benedict. Joseph Wright of Derby, Painter of Light. 2 vols. (London: Paul Mellon Foundation for British Art, 1968), pp. 16, 64-65, 73, 146-49, 152, 244, 278, no. 225.

Watson, Ross, ed. Joseph Wright of Derby: A Selection of Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery, 1969), p. 16, under no. 10.

Burke, J. T. The Iconography of the Enlightenment in English Art (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1970), pp. 19-20.

Tomory, Peter. The Life and Art of Henry Fuseli (New York: Praeger, 1972), p. 189.

Paulson, Ronald. Emblem and Expression: Meaning in English Art of the Eighteenth Century (London: Thames and Hudson, 1975), p. 200.

Burton, Anthony. Josiah Wedgwood: A Biography (London: Andre Deutsch, 1976), pp. 189-90.

Wedgwood, Barbara, and Hensliegh Wedgwood. The Wedgwood Circle 1730-1897: Four Generations of a Family and Their Friends (London: Studio Vista, 1980), opposite p. 35, ill.

Cossa, Frank. "Josiah Wedgwood: His Role as a Patron of Flaxman, Stubbs, and Wright of Derby." Ph.D. diss. (Rutgers University, 1982), pp. 219-74.

Cossa, Frank. "Josiah Wedgwood, Potter and Patron." Portfolio 5, no. 2 (March-April 1983), p. 119.

Lefrançois, Thierry. "Charles Coypel, peintre du roi (1694-1752)." Ph.D. diss. 3 vols.(Université de Paris IV, 1983), vol. 1, pp. 21, 45, 46, 141-42, no. D; vol. 2, pp. 374, 408, 462.

"Auctions." Tableau 9, no. 5 (March 1987), p. 88, ill.

Christie's Review of the Season (1987), p. 35, ill.

Christie, Manson, and Woods, London. Important English Pictures. April 24, 1987, pp. 162-63, lot 106, ill.

"Acquisitions/1987." The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 16 (1988), p. 155, no. 20.

Egerton, Judy, ed. Wright of Derby, exh. cat. (London: Tate Gallery, 1990), pp. 126, 130-31, 134, no. 68, ill.

Reynolds, Graham. "A Spirit of Independence." Times Literary Supplement, no. 4535 (March 2-8, 1990), p. 225.

Hayes, John. British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery: 1992), pp. 348-49.

Bermingham, Ann. "The Origin of Painting and the Ends of Art: Wright of Derby's 'Corinthian Maid.'" In Painting and the Politics of Culture: New Essays on British Art, 1700-1850. John Barrell, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), p. 146, n. 40.

Lippincott, Louise. "Expanding on Portraiture: The Market, the Public, and the Hierarchy of Genres in Eighteenth-Century Britain." In The Consumption of Culture, 1600-1800. John Brewer and Ann Bermingham, eds. (London and New York: Routledge, 1995), p. 85.

Fredericksen, Burton B., et al, eds. The Index of Paintings Sold in the British Isles during the Nineteenth Century. 4 vols. (Santa Barbara: ABC CLIO, 1988- 96), vol. 4 (1996), pt. 2, p. 914.

Jaffé, David. Summary Catalogue of European Paintings in the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1997), p. 137, ill.

Daniels, Stephen. Joseph Wright (London: Tate Gallery, 1999), pp. 54-56, ill.

Stafford, Barbara Maria. Visual Analogy: Consciousness as the Art of Connecting (Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1999), pp. 83, 85, ill.

Wiedergeburt griechischer Götter und Helden: Homer in der Kunst der Goethezeit, exh. cat. (Stendal: Winckelmann-Museum, 1999), p. 87, under no. III.8, entry by Eva Hofstetter.

Günther, Hubertus. "Kult der Primitivität im Klassizismus." In Von der Geometrie zur Naturalisierung: Utopisches Denken im 18. Jahrhundert. Richard Saage and Eva-Maria Seng, eds. (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1999), p. 69.

Impelluso, Lucia. Gods and Heroes in Art. Thomas Michael Hartmann, trans. (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003), p. 288, ill.

Daverio, Philippe, ed. Sul filo della lana (Milan: Skira, 2005), p. 128.

Barker, Elizabeth. "Documents Relating to Joseph Wright 'of Derby' (1734-97)." Walpole Society 71 (2009), pp. 7n23, 105-8, 169, ill.

Grafton, Anthony, Glenn W. Most, and Salvatore Settis, eds. The Classical Tradition (Cambridge: The Belknap Press, 2010), p. 700.

Faroult, Guillaume, et al, eds. L'Antiquité rêvée: Innovations et résistances au XVIIIe siècle, exh. cat. (Paris: Musée du Louvre, with Gallimard, 2010), pp. 369, 434-36, no. 146, ill., entry by Guillaume Faroult.

Faroult, Guillaume, Christophe Leribault, and Guilhem Scherf, eds. Antiquity Revived: Neoclassical Art in the Eighteenth Century, exh. cat. (Paris: Musée du Louvre with Gallimard, 2011), pp. 168-69, no. 91, ill., entry by Guillaume Faroult.

Uglow, Jenny. "Measureless Caverns: Joseph Wright and Virgil's Tomb." In Joseph Wright of Derby: Virgil's Tomb & the Grand Tour in Naples. Jenny Uglow and Bart Thurber, eds. (London: Matthiesen Gallery, 2012), p. 48.

Brunelli, Gianfranco, Francesco Leone, Fernando Mazzocca, Fabrizio Paolucci, and Paola Refice, eds. Ulisse: l’arte e il mito, exh. cat. (Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2020), pp. 291, 413, entry by Alessandro Malinverni, ill.

Education Resources