Derby Museum and Art Gallery — highlights
The most celebrated public-domain works at the Derby Museum and Art Gallery — 173 paintings in this catalogue, spanning 1613 to 1928, most celebrated first. Featuring Joseph Wright of Derby, George Turner and Henry Lark Pratt.
A Philosopher by Lamplight
The Captive King
Indian Widow
Grotto in the Gulf of Salerno
A Prospect of Derby
Portrait of Rev D'Ewes Coke, his wife Hannah and Daniel Parker Coke
Portrait of Michael Thomas Bass (1799–1884)
Self Portrait in Van Dyck Costume (aged about twenty)
Portrait of Samuel Ward
John Flamsteed (1646–1719)
Earthstopper on the Banks of the Derwent
John Whitehurst (1713–1788)
A View of the Ponte Nomentano, near Rome
Portrait of an Unknown Woman (possibly Laura Walpole)
Sir Thomas Parker (1666–1732)
Romeo and Juliet: the Tomb Scene
Jedediah Strutt
Hannah Wright (1732–1810), in a Feather Hat (sister of the artist)
First Exeter Bridge, Derby
Self Portrait
A Philosopher Giving That Lecture on the Orrery in Which a Lamp Is Put in Place of the Sun
Elizabeth Crompton
Miravan Breaking Open the Tomb of his Ancestors
Vesuvius in Eruption, Italy
Sarah Carver and Her Daughter, Sarah
Portrait of a Lady
Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658)
The Captive
Valley of the Neath
The Siege of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia
St Mary's Bridge, Derby
River Derwent from Exeter Bridge
Bacchus and Ceres
Castlefields, Derbyshire
Osmaston Hall, Derby
A View of Cromford Bridge
Still Life with Fruit
Derby from the Meadows
View of Derby from Nottingham Road
The Captive (from Laurence Sterne's 'A Sentimental Journey')
Llugwy Valley
Landscape with a Waterfall
Vesuvius in Eruption, Italy
View in Derbyshire
Early Lessons
General Johnson Saving a Wounded French Officer from the Tomahawk of a North American Indian
Sluice Gate, River Wensum, Norfolk
Junction of River and Canal, Derby
A Summer Day on the Conway
Christ Led to Calvary
The River Derwent from the Great Northern Railway Bridge, Derby
Morledge, Derby, by Night in Fairtime
River Derwent, Derby
The Dead Soldier, from John Langhorne's 'Country Justice'
Dale Abbey, Derbyshire
Arkwright's Mills
Evening
Flemish Landscape
The Shores of Rydal Water, Cumbria
Mont Saint Michel, Normandy, France
Derby Mill, Shot Tower and All Saints' Church
Castle Landscape*
Ruins on the Coast of Naples, Italy, Moonlight
Girl with Flowers
On the Llugwy
Lord George Augustus Cavendish (d.1794)
St Marys on the Bridge, Derby
Richard Arkwright Junior (1755–1843), with His Wife Mary, and Daughter Anne
Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832)
Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797) (after Joseph Wright of Derby)
Sir John Coke (1563–1644)
Anne Borrow (d.1799)
Elizabeth Crompton
Virgil's Tomb
Thomas Borrow (1709–1786)
Sir Richard Arkwright (1732–1792)
Sir Richard Arkwright (1732–1792)
Samuel Crompton (c.1720–1782)
Richard Arkwright (1732–1792), English inventor
Harriet (1778–1860) (the artist's daughter)
Hannah Wright (1775–1867) (niece of the artist)
Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802)
Cornet Edward Walpole (1737–1771)
St Peter's Church, Derby, by Moonlight
Self Portrait
All Saints' Church Tower, Queen Street, Derby
Self Portrait at the Age of about Forty; Verso: Study for 'An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump'
Alfred E. Goodey (1878–1945), 50th Birthday Portrait
The Destruction of Spanish Battery Ships before Gibraltar
Maria and Her Dog 'Silvio'
Portrait of a Lady
Portrait of an Unknown Woman (possibly Laura Walpole)
Still Life
Harvest Time in Barrow-on-Trent, Derbyshire
All Saints' Church Tower, Queen Street, Derby
Crossing the Stepping Stones
Isaac Borrow, Recorder of Derby
A Prospect of the City of Derby
Scene near Naples, Italy, Moonlight
Maria and Her Dog 'Silvio'
Anchor Church, Hermits Cave
Portrait of an Unknown Man
John Wright (1706–1803)
Harvest Scene
Cottage on Fire
Isle of Arran, from the Ayrshire Shore
A Cottage in Needwood Forest, Staffordshire
Kirkstall Abbey, Yorkshire
'Old Rising Sun' Inn, Derby
Market Place (The Royal Visit, Derby, 21 May 1891)
Girl with a Basket of Fruit
Portrait Study for Head of Moses
View of the Market Place, Derby
St Peter's Street, Derby
Abbot's Hill House, Derby
Osmaston Hall, Derby
Derby from Burton Road
Fording the Brook
Rydal Waterfall, Cumbria
Bridge through a Cavern, Moonlight
Isle of Canna
Harvest Scene, Barrow-on-Trent, Derbyshire
View of Derby, Showing the Derwent
The Trent below Donington, Derbyshire
General Johnson Saving a Wounded French Officer from a North American Indian
The Old Infirmary, Derby
Littleover Hollow, Derby
View of the Market Place, Derby
Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire
Landscape with a Rainbow
Haddon Hall Steps, Derbyshire
Andernach on the Rhine, Germany
Old St Werburgh's Church, Derby, from Friargate
The Trent below Weston Cliff
St Peter's Church, Derby, by Moonlight
Vesuvius from Posilipo, Italy
Flora
Littleover Hollow, Derbyshire
'New Zealand Arms'
Cascades below Matlock Bath, Derbyshire
Moonlight Landscape
Chepstow
Morning
Sleeping Dog
Derby from a Field Adjoining Abbey Barns
The Chapel, Haddon Hall, Derbyshire
Candlelight
Evening Landscape*
Dovedale, by Moonlight
The Artist's Model
River with Cattle
A View of Derby from Rowditch
The Fairy of the Glen
A Boy Admiring a Statuette by Candlelight
Scene in the Lake District
A Scotch Farm
Boy and Girl with a Bladder
Hopping Mill Weir, Derbyshire
Derby from Chester Close
The Widow of an Indian Chief Watching the Arms of Her Deceased Husband
River Scene with Rocks
Mr Cooper
St Peter's Church by moonlight
Ship on Fire
James Bennett of Mackworth, Derbyshire
Vesuvius in Eruption, Italy
Old Silk Mill Tower and Lane, Derby (after Edwin Ellis)
A Sunny Afternoon
Crossing the Stepping Stones
Virgil's Tomb
A Cottage in Needwood Forest
Derby from the South-East
John Hallam