An online and in-person talk, 16th February 2022, In Darkness and in Light: Rethinking Joseph Wright of Derby.

“Rethinking” is not here a weasel-word for the usual scabrous political axe-grinding. Rather it’s apparently about…

the extent to which Wright, rather than being a spokesman for scientific progress, was actually a melancholic and sceptical outsider, who increasingly retreated into a solitary, rural world of philosophical and poetic reflection, and whose artistic vision was correspondingly dark and meditative.

A full Catalogue Raisonne is also reported to be in preparation for the famous painter.