1734–1797 · British · English Enlightenment painting
Joseph Wright of Derby was a British painter who put the Enlightenment on canvas. His candle-lit interiors of scientific demonstrations, including An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, gave new dignity to the world of natural philosophy and the industrial revolution unfolding around him.
Best known for: An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, candle-lit interiors
Impressionism
39
Light, weather and modern Paris on canvas.
Post-Impressionism
26
Bold colour and personal vision past the Impressionists.
Japanese Woodblock
23
Mount Fuji, the Great Wave and Edo street life.
Renaissance
34
Italian and northern masters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Botanical & Natural History
25
Plates of birds, flowers and insects drawn from life.
Pre-Raphaelite & Symbolist
20
Late Victorian myth, dream and gothic figure.
Art Nouveau Posters
14
Mucha and Toulouse-Lautrec in the great Paris poster era.
Dutch Golden Age
15
Vermeer, Rembrandt and the quiet light of 1600s Holland.
Maps & Celestial Charts
4
Engraved world maps and star atlases from the age of exploration.
Romanticism
23
Storms, ruins and sublime landscapes from Turner, Friedrich and Goya.
Chinese Landscape
4
Song, Yuan and Ming masters of the mountain-and-water tradition.
Persian, Mughal & Indian
2
Miniatures and album leaves from the great Eastern courts.
Modernism & Abstraction
4
Hilma af Klint, Mondrian, Kandinsky, Malevich and the abstract pioneers.
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