John Michael Wright

English Baroque Era Painter, ca.1617-1694,was a British baroque portrait painter. Wright trained in Edinburgh under the Scots painter George Jamesone, and acquired a considerable reputation as an artist and scholar during a long sojourn in Rome. There he was admitted to the Accademia di San Luca, and was associated with some of the leading artists of his generation. He was engaged by Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, the governor of the Spanish Netherlands, to acquire artworks in Oliver Cromwell's England in 1655. He took up permanent residence in England from 1656, and served as court painter before and after the English Restoration. A convert to Roman Catholicism, he was a favourite of the restored Stuart court, a client of both Charles II and James II, and was a witness to many of the political manoeuvrings of the era. In the final years of the Stuart monarchy he returned to Rome as part of an embassy to Pope Innocent XI. Wright is currently rated as one of the leading indigenous British painters of his generation and largely for the distinctive realism in his portraiture. Perhaps due to the unusually cosmopolitan nature of his experience, he was favoured by patrons at the highest level of society in an age in which foreign artists were usually preferred. Wright's paintings of royalty and aristocracy are included amongst the collections of many leading galleries today.


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John Michael Wright Portrait of Mrs Salesbury with her Grandchildren Edward and Elizabeth Bagot Oil on canvas oil


Portrait of Mrs Salesbury with her Grandchildren Edward and Elizabeth Bagot Oil on canvas
Painting ID::  94338
Portrait of Mrs Salesbury with her Grandchildren Edward and Elizabeth Bagot Oil on canvas
June 1675(1675-06) cjr
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John Michael Wright Portrait painter oil


Portrait painter
Painting ID::  94339
Portrait painter
1589 cjr
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John Michael Wright Elizabeth Claypole oil


Elizabeth Claypole
Painting ID::  94340
Elizabeth Claypole
1658(1658) cjr
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John Michael Wright Charles II of England in Coronation robes oil


Charles II of England in Coronation robes
Painting ID::  94341
Charles II of England in Coronation robes
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John Michael Wright The Ladies Catherine and Charlotte Talbot oil


The Ladies Catherine and Charlotte Talbot
Painting ID::  94342
The Ladies Catherine and Charlotte Talbot
1679(1679) cjr
1679(1679) cjr
   
   
     

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     John Michael Wright
     English Baroque Era Painter, ca.1617-1694,was a British baroque portrait painter. Wright trained in Edinburgh under the Scots painter George Jamesone, and acquired a considerable reputation as an artist and scholar during a long sojourn in Rome. There he was admitted to the Accademia di San Luca, and was associated with some of the leading artists of his generation. He was engaged by Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, the governor of the Spanish Netherlands, to acquire artworks in Oliver Cromwell's England in 1655. He took up permanent residence in England from 1656, and served as court painter before and after the English Restoration. A convert to Roman Catholicism, he was a favourite of the restored Stuart court, a client of both Charles II and James II, and was a witness to many of the political manoeuvrings of the era. In the final years of the Stuart monarchy he returned to Rome as part of an embassy to Pope Innocent XI. Wright is currently rated as one of the leading indigenous British painters of his generation and largely for the distinctive realism in his portraiture. Perhaps due to the unusually cosmopolitan nature of his experience, he was favoured by patrons at the highest level of society in an age in which foreign artists were usually preferred. Wright's paintings of royalty and aristocracy are included amongst the collections of many leading galleries today.

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