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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	LS/750
Title	Painting faces
Date	2025
Publication Date	2025
Author	Farnsworth, Steve
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
ISBN	9781916823310
Abstract	There are artists who produce masterpieces and who never quite grasp or suspect what it is that they have achieved.Joseph Wrightis one such artist. The creator of The Orrery, The Airpump and the Forge paintings has come to be viewed as the prophet of modern science, of the Midlands Enlightenment and early industrialisation, yet Joe himself would never have suspected that his fame if indeed he was ever likely to gain any might rest on these particular works alone, magnificent though they are. Produced in a purple patch of creative energy in his early thirties, they touched on themes he left behind almost as soon as he had explored them. Painting Faces recreates, within a part-fiction, the eighteenth century world from which these iconic images sprang.
Format	Printed
Term	Artists
Term	Paintings