Portrait of a Woman
Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby)
ca. 1770
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
49 7/8 x 40 in. (126.7 x 101.6 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Heathcote Art Foundation, 1986
Accession Number
1986.264.6
Tags
PortraitsWomen
About the Artist
Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) · 1734–1797
Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797) was an English painter celebrated for his dramatic use of candlelight and artificial illumination, which earned him a unique position in eighteenth-century British art as the painter of the Industrial Revolution and the Enlightenment. Born in Derby in the English Midlands, he studied in London under Thomas Hudson, a leading portrait painter, before returning to D...