Keywords: Wright of Derby, Academy by Lamplight.JPG c 1768-69 Oil canvas cm Yale Center for British Art object history credit line The central feature is Nymph With a Shell a well-known and widely copied Hellenistic sculpture now in the Louvre At the time of this painting Wright's friend PeterPerez Burdett was starting the first Art's Academy in Liverpool accession number Paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby Peter Perez Burdett People with sculptures Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art 1760s paintings PD-old-100 |