テート・ギャラリーのインスタグラム(tate) - 9月4日 00時38分

Happy Birthday Joseph Wright of Derby... 241 years old today. Have you seen his work before?

Wright was a painter of portraits and subject-pictures who spent most of his life in his birth-place, Derby. From the mid 1760s he began to paint scenes of contemporary scientific and industrial life, of which 'An Iron Forge' (seen here) is one of the most striking.

The central figure of the picture is the iron-founder, presented in a commanding pose as he pauses in his work to cast a proud eye towards his wife and children. The workman, or 'finer', with his back to the viewer, holds the glowing metal over the anvil with a pair of tongs, ready to be hammered.
The iron-founder's role as overseer and his relaxed attitude - even his faintly dandyish striped waistcoat - suggest that the introduction of new machinery in his forge has brought about a lightening of his workload. The combination of his muscular physique and his place amidst his contented family, reinforce the middle-class value of honest labour as a prerequisite to domestic happiness #art #tatebritain #tatebritainmuseum

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