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Bitmap Image  |  1995-11-13  |  70KB  |  325x211  |  1-bit (2 colors)
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OCR: Joseph Wrightof Derby: 1797 English painter t the industrialists f the Midlands who reworked history and genre compositions adding scientific abservation artificial light effects was student of Sir Joshua Reynolds who first exhibited at the Society af Artists in 177 lter returning from grand tour Europe His pictorial stvle drew upon his diligent study of ancient statues (Capitoline Museum in Rome) He was ta da for the Industrial Revolution what Jacques Louis David did for the French Revolution: he put heroic but secular face on the achievements of the Luna Society whose mem- bershin included the wealthiest patrons in Eneland oseph Wright radding observation 1776 style Industria Lunar rSociety incl uded lthiest trons