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Richard Wright (1723?–1775?) was an English marine painter. An entirely self-taught artist, he first appeared as an exhibitor in London in 1760, and between that date and 1773 exhibited twenty-five works with the Incorporated Society of Artists and one with the Free Society. ==Works== One of Wright's earliest known works is a picture of the St Nicholas Church, Liverpool, known as 'The Sailor's Church', and where Wright himself was probably baptised. The scene depicts the church and surrounding buildings viewed across the River Mersey from "Man's Island". It was one of several works originally executed by Wright for his shoemaker. Wright first came to public attention 1762 after when he regularly exhibited at the Society of Artists until 1773. Exhibited works included ''A Storm with a Shipwreck'', ''Sunset, a Fresh Breeze'', ''A Fresh Gale'', ''River with Boats, &c., Moonlight.'' The latter is though to be ''A moonlit river landscape with a windmill, boats and figures'', exhibited between 1770 and 1773 and sold at Christie's, London, in 2012 for £6000.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Richard Wright of Liverpool (Liverpool c. 1720-c. 1775) | A moonlit river landscape with a windmill, boats and figures )〕 In 1764 a fifty guinea premium was offered by the Society of Arts for the best marine picture; this he won, as was the case with similar prizes given by the society in 1766 and 1768. Wright's career encompassed the latter years of the Seven Years' War and several of his works depict naval battles and the vessels involved. His painting of the Battle of Quiberon Bay, fought on 20 November 1759 and painted in 1760, depicts the wrecked 74-gun in the right foreground with the 64-gun ahead of her and the French and in flames in the right distance. To the left are the captured French 80-gun , with a two-deck English vessel. Wright painted a scene from the action off the Isle of Man that took place on the 28 February 1760 in which under John Elliot, with and , attacked a French squadron under François Thurot aboard the flagship that resulted in Thurot's death and the surrender of all three French frigates. Wright also painted an accompanying picture of the ships in Ramsey Bay after the action. Measuring by , the paintings were engraved by Millar and Goldar and dedicated to Captain Elliot and the Merchants of the Port of Liverpool respectively. Wright is noted as having been on board the ''Belle Isle'' sketching in the aftermath of the battle. In 1761 Wright painted several pictures of the storms encountered on the journey from Stade to Harwich of the Royal Yacht ''Fubbs'' that conveyed Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz to England to marry George III. One in the Royal Collection at Hampton Court Palace, ''The Royal Yacht bringing Queen Charlotte to England in a Storm'' is thought to be the picture first exhibited by Wright in 1762 as ''A View of the Storm when the Queen was on her passage to England''.〔〔 The flotilla was led by Admiral Lord Anson aboard the and his wife, Mary, accompanied Princess Charlotte aboard the ''Fubbs''. Joshua Reynolds painted separate portraits of both Anson and his wife and Wright contributed background detail to each of them. The version of Anson's portrait in the National Gallery pre-dates Wright's intervention.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Philip Mould | Historical Portraits | George Anson, 1st Baron Anson | Sir Joshua Reynolds P.R.A. | Item Details )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC - Your Paintings - Princess Charlotte's Passage to England, September 1761 )〕 In 1762 Wright painted a picture depicting the capture of the by the 28-gun frigate and the 18-gun sloop-of-war off the coast of Spain near the port of Cadiz in the action of 31 May 1762.〔 His most notable work is a sea-piece, for which he obtained a premium of fifty guineas in 1764; from it William Woollett engraved his fine plate ‘The Fishery.’〔 No doubt owing to excellence of the engraver's work, a copy of this was published in France, on which the name of Vernet was affixed as painter. The ship has been identified as . The engraving embellishes the original painting, adding the words "Fish Machine" to a horse-drawn fish cart in the detail of the foreground fishing scene from which the popular name derives.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/conservation/departments/paintings/richardwright/background.aspx )〕 Around 1767 Wright painted ''Man of War in a Harbour'' depicting a Man-of-War of about 60 guns flying an Admiral's flag departing from harbour led by several more distant similar-sized ships and smaller craft in line ahead formation. The ship's figurehead, viewed from the rear, appears to be of a figure wearing kilt and glengarry, suggesting a Scottish name, but the ship has yet to be identified.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/conservation/departments/paintings/richardwright/ship/index.aspx )〕 Like ''The Fishery'', the foreground detail depicts fishermen unloading their catch. The detail of the fish is sufficient to identify the species.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/conservation/departments/paintings/richardwright/fish.aspx )〕 Sold by Wright to Jervoise Clarke for sixty guineas the painting remained in the family collection until sold at auction in 1975. It was purchased by the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, in 2006.〔 An indistinctly-dated oil on panel entitled ''Shipping in a bay by a ruined tower'' was sold by Christie's, New York, in 2007 for $2500. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Wright (painter)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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