Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001642The Gulf of Salerno
Inscriptions
Inscribed on original stretcher: Gulf of Salerno painted by Jos. Wright / exhibited 1785
Provenance
Probably John Holland, Ford Hall, Derbyshire [a "Sun Set in the Bay of Salerno" listed in Wright's Account Book about 1783 as the companion to Bacon's Moonlight Vesuvius and "sold to my friend Holland"; see Judy Egerton, Wright of Derby, exhib. cat. Tate Gallery, Louvre, and Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990, p. 180, under no. 109]. Private collection, England, by family descent to a collector in New York, c. 1992 [information kindly supplied by Piers Davies, Christie’s]; sold Christie's, New York, 24 January, 2003, no. 140 to Simon Dickinson, London; sold to the Art Institute.
Exhibition history
Mr. Robin's Rooms, Convent Garden, Exhibition of Paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1785, no. 16 Chicago, BUILDING A COLLECTION: NEW ACQUISITIONS AND PROMISED GIFTS OF BRITISH ART, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, May 1–August 1, 2004, no. 5.
Publications
Anonymous review, "Exhibition of Pictures by Mr. Wright of Derby," Morning Post and Daily Advertiser, April 20, 1785, p. 2.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Joseph Wright of Derby (English, 1734-1797)
- Date
- 1783–85
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 41.6 × 59.4 cm (16 3/8 × 23 3/8 in.); Framed: 51.5 × 67.7 cm (20 1/4 × 26 5/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- 18th Century
- Place
- England
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- L.L. and A.S. Coburn, Josephine and John I. Louis, Jr., and Alexander A. McKay Endowments; through prior acquisition of the Charles H. and Mary F.S. Worcester Endowment
- Accession no.
- 2003.46
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