Title: Joseph Wright of Derby: An Exhibition to Commemorate the Centenary of Derby Museums and Art Gallery
Venue: Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Dates: from 21/04/1979 to 21/07/1979
Title: Drawings by Joseph Wright of Derby
Venue: Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Dates: from 31/03/1990 to 22/04/1990
Title: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734-1797: Bicentenary Exhibition
Venue: Wallis, Jane
Dates: from 21/06/1997 to 28/09/1997
Title: Joseph Wright of Derby: Life on Paper
Venue: Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Dates: from 23/05/2025 to 07/09/2025

Title: Joseph Wright of Derby 1734 - 1797
Sub-Title: An introduction to the work of Joseph Wright of Derby with a catalogue of drawings held by Derby Museum and Art Gallery. Published on the occasion of an exhibition commemorating the Bicentenary of the artist's death.
Author: Wallis, Jane
Published Place: Derby
Published Year: 1997
Title: Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Light
Sub-Title: Volume 1
Volume: 1
Author: Benedict Nicolson
Published Place: London
Copyright: Benedict Nicolson, 1968
Published Year: 1968
Title: Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Light
Sub-Title: Volume 2
Volume: 2
Author: Benedict Nicolson
Published Place: New Haven and London
Published Year: 1968

Elizabeth Pole (Content)
Display Date: died 1832
Sacheverel Pole (Content)
Display Date: British, 1769 - 1813
Nationality: British
Joseph Wright of Derby (Artist)
Display Date: British, 1734 - 1797
Nationality: British
Biography: Artist.
Edward Galton Wheler (Association)
Display Date: British, 1850 - 1935
Nationality: British
Biography: Land agent, land owner, and magistrate. Son of Edward and Elizabeth Anne Wheler; a grandson of Samuel Tertius Galton. Married Mary Louisa Dugdale (1863/4–1955) in 1890. Estate agent in High Legh, Cheshire, 1881; commissioner to the duke of Northumberland in Alnwick, 1891, 1901; retired to Claverdon Leys, Warwickshire, by 1911. Assumed the additional name of Galton in 1913. [source: Darwin Correspondence Project online, accessed 13 December 2024: https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=nameregs/nameregs_8781.xml&query=Wheler]
Emma Sophia Galton (Association)
Display Date: British, 1811 - 1904
Nationality: British
Biography: Daughter of Samuel Tertius Galton and Violetta Galton, née Darwin. Sister of Francis Galton (1822–1911). Therefore grand-daughter of Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802).

Study for a Portrait of Elizabeth Pole and her Son Sacheverel

Date: c. 1771

Medium: Gouache and sepia ink over pencil on paper.

Object Type:	painting
Dimensions:	Support: 464 × 299 mm (18 1/4 × 11 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions:	Inscribed on plinth: 'Purple and / Straw'.
Provenance:	?possibly by descent through the artist's family (noted as being in the possession of a great grand-daughter of Joseph Wright in a letter from Francis Galton to Charles Darwin, June 7, 1879); purchased by Francis Galton; Galton sale (sale of the contents of The Leys, Claverdon, Warwickshire) in October 1954; contained within a lot acquired by the National Portrait Gallery from this sale; purchased as part of a larger lot by the National Portrait Gallery and transferred to Derby Museums in 1954.
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Item Ref:	1954-249