JOSEPH WRIGHT OF DERBY: BATH AND BEYOND
STUDY DAY

9am to 6pm Monday 24 February, 2014

This event will bring together a variety of stimulating
speakers from different disciplines to examine in greater
depth Wright’s little-known Bath period and its contexts.
The morning session will explore the cultural life of Bath
in the 1770s through recent historical research and ask
whether Wright’s place in this complex and creative
society has been misunderstood. In the afternoon the
focus will turn to other places: Derbyshire, Liverpool, the
London exhibition galleries and the places of Wright’s
literary imagination, and their influence on the artist’s
life and work.