John Michael Wright
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John Michael Wright was an English painter, mainly of portraits in the Baroque style. Born and raised in London, Wright trained in Edinburgh under the Scots painter George Jamesone, and sometimes desc
Portrait of Mary Wilbraham, Weston Park
Mrs Salesbury with her Grandchildren Edward and Elizabeth Bagot (c. 1676), Tate Collection
George Jamesone (1590–1644) self-portrait (c. 1642), National Galleries of Scotland.
"The Virgin and Child" (1647) after Annibale Carracci. Wright's earliest known Scottish work, dedicated to the Marquess of Somerfield. Hunterian Collection
Stuart Restoration
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The Stuart Restoration was the return in May 1660 of the Stuart monarchy to the kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, ending the Interregnum and the Commonwealth of England that had been establi
John Michael Wright
…artworks in Oliver Cromwell's England in 1655. He took up permanent residence in England from 1656 and served as court painter before and after the English Restoration. A convert to Roman Catholicism, he was a favourite of the restored Stuart court, a client of both Charles II and James II, and was a witness to many…
King Charles II in coronation robes by John Michael Wright
The departure of Charles II from Scheveningen (1660)
Thomas Harrison, the first person found guilty of regicide during the Restoration
Equestrian portrait of William III by Jan Wyck, commemorating the start of the Glorious Revolution in 1688