Joseph Wright of Derby Symposium
Date: 16/11/2007Time: 16th November 2pm onwards, 17th November 9am - 5pm
Venue: Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool
Website: pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~hhoock/18th%20Century%20Worlds%20Website/wright.htm
From 17 November 2007 to 24 February 2008, the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool will show an exhibition of major works by Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-97), one of the most significant British artists of the mid-eighteenth century.
The exhibition will focus on the period 1768-71, when Wright worked in the increasingly prosperous city of Liverpool and galvanized local artists there.
To coincide with the opening of the show, on 16 & 17 November 2007, the Eighteenth-Century Worlds Research Centre at the University of Liverpool will host, jointly with the Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool, a symposium on Wright of Derby.
The symposium will re-evaluate Wright’s career, œuvre, and impact more fully. Key themes to be explored include:
• Liverpool’s place in the development of provincial urban culture; its interconnected worlds of arts, commerce, manufacture, and science;
• Wright’s collectors, patrons, and wider socio-intellectual networks in London, the Midlands, and
