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by Joseph Wright of Derby
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The Synnot Children 1781 by Joseph Wright of Derby... more
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The Synnot Children 1781 by Joseph Wright of Derby
Among various anecdotes narrated by Pliny the Elder that reveal the illusionistic skills of the Greek painters, the one recounting how Zeuxis was deluded by the drapery painted by his rival Parrhasios stands out. The curtain was painted so realistically, Pliny writes, that Zeuxis requested it to be drawn aside and hence reveal the painting.1 Similar stories, true or fabricated, have been circulated about paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby, which also are noted for their realism. According to one, John Holland of Ford Hall, a close friend of Wright and Mrs Moreword of Alfreton Hall, visited the artist’s studio in 1780. Mrs Moreword asked Mr Holland to remove a bird-cage that obstructed her view of the lower part of a painting of three children playing with a dove.2 We are told that the artist thanked Mrs Moreword for the compliment she had unwittingly paid him.
The painting* on which this anecdote was based, The Synn...
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