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Wright, Joseph, of Derby (1734–1797), painter 1

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2016 - Long Gallery 408 (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-03-29 - ) 1
Artists' Portraits (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-02-06 - 2002-03-24) 1
Off the Map: Provenance of a Painting (Nasher Museum of Art, 2021-09-18 - 2022-01-09) 1
Two Extraordinary Women : The Lives and Art of Maria Cosway (1760-1838) and Mary Darby Robinson (1757-1800) (The Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia, 2016-01-29 - 2016-05-01) 1

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Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797

Self-Portrait

ca. 1780
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813

Mrs. Cosway

1787
Accessible in the Study Room
James Smetham, 1821–1889

The Artist Sketching

undated

1080 Chapel Street
New Haven, Connecticut

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