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Erasmus Darwin
8 of 15 portraits on display in Room 13 at the National Portrait Gallery
Erasmus Darwin
after Joseph Wright
oil on canvas, (1770)
30 in. x 25 in. (760 mm x 635 mm)
Purchased, 1859
Primary Collection
NPG 88
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Artistback to top
- Joseph Wright (1734-1797), Painter, known as 'Wright of Derby'. Artist associated with 19 portraits, Sitter associated with 7 portraits.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Hackmann, W.D., Apples and Atoms: Portraits of Scientists from Newton to Rutherford, 1986, p. 28
- Hart-Davis, Adam, Chain Reactions, 2000, p. 46
- Ingamells, John, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, 2004, p. 135
- Jordanova, Ludmilla, Defining Features: Scientific and Medical Portraits 1660-2000, 2000 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 14 April to 17 September 2000), p. 64
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 165
- Woof, Robert; Hebron, Stephen, Romantic Icons, 1999, p. 17
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