From the Shadows: Rare reunion of Wright of Derby masterpieces opens in London

As winter’s shadows fall across the land, it’s an appropriate moment for the National Gallery to open an exhibition by the master of shadows and light – Joseph Wright of Derby.The exhibition is the latest where the gallery takes one of its important paintings, in this case The Air Pump, and brings together a number of the artist’s other works in other collections to form a family group.
Joseph Wright of Derby was a well-regarded portrait painter, but for a few years betwe