Derby: Joseph Wright works on display in painter's home city

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Derby: Joseph Wright works on display in painter's home city
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The paintings by Joseph Wright are on public display for just the fifth time in more than 250 years.

The paintings, A Girl Reading A Letter With An Old Man Reading Over Her Shoulder and Two Boys Fighting Over A Bladder, are on display at Derby Museum and Art GalleryTwo paintings by one of the UK's most renowned artists have gone on public display for just the fifth time in more than 250 years.

Both were painted in about 1767 to 1770 by Wright, born in the city in 1734 and widely regarded as one of the most compelling British painters of the age.They are entitled A Girl Reading A Letter With An Old Man Reading Over Her Shoulder, and Two Boys Fighting Over A Bladder.

"Together they give us our clearest glimpse yet of some of Wright's sources of inspiration: in this case Netherlandish paintings of the 17th Century."

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