Tag Archives: Joseph Wright of Derby paintings

wedgwood: let it be with the lunarticks

Posted on October 24, 2012 by Dave

In the 1790′s however, this great group was fast breaking up. The turn of the century saw the death of many. Thomas Day was killed from a fall from his horse in 1789- with characteristic perversity he had refused to … Continue reading →

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Darwin: going rogue in the Midlands

Posted on October 20, 2012 by Dave

Josiah Wedgwood’s friends were the most brilliant group in England, and clearly the most eccentric. Most are forgotten today, but some of them changed the world… Thomas Bentley preferred to exercise his charm rather than to regiment his gifts; Anna … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Anna Seward, Erasmus Darwin, Joseph Wright of Derby paintings, Josiah Wedgwood, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Thomas Bentley, Thomas Day, Thomas Day Sandford and Merton, William Hackwood | Leave a comment

wedgwood: going lunar

Posted on October 19, 2012 by Dave

Josiah Wedgwood and his cohorts. The most brilliant group in England and likely the most eccentric. Many have passed into the forgotten mists of history, but some of them changed the world… …These scientific interests found their formal expression in … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Erasmus Darwin, Jenny Uglow, Joseph Priestley, Joseph Wright of Derby paintings, Joseph Wright painter, Josoah Wedgwood, Lichfield Group, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Matthew Boulton, The Lunar Society, William Darwin | Leave a comment

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Posted on October 19, 2012 by Dave

Children should be seen and not heard…. Hard not to learn something when your father, Josiah Wedgwood frequented such illuminaries in the eighteenth century as James Watt,Joseph Priestley, Erasmus Darwin and on the artistic side, George Stubbs and the poetess … Continue reading →