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 Sir Neil O'Neill oil painting


Sir Neil O'Neill
1680(1680) cjr
Painting ID::  94343
John Michael Wright
Sir Neil O'Neill
1680(1680) cjr
   
   
     

John Michael Wright Lord Mungo Murray oil painting


Lord Mungo Murray
c.1683 cjr
Painting ID::  94344
John Michael Wright
Lord Mungo Murray
c.1683 cjr
   
   
     

John Michael Wright Wright's Duchess of Cleveland oil painting


Wright's Duchess of Cleveland
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Painting ID::  94345
John Michael Wright
Wright's Duchess of Cleveland
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John Michael Wright Lely's Duchess of Cleveland as the penitent Magdalen oil painting


Lely's Duchess of Cleveland as the penitent Magdalen
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Painting ID::  94346
John Michael Wright
Lely's Duchess of Cleveland as the penitent Magdalen
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John Michael Wright Portrait of a Lady, thought to be Ann Davis, Lady Lee oil painting


Portrait of a Lady, thought to be Ann Davis, Lady Lee
1617-94 cjr
Painting ID::  94347
John Michael Wright
Portrait of a Lady, thought to be Ann Davis, Lady Lee
1617-94 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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