Joseph Pickford
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Joseph Pickford was an English architect that mostly worked within the English county of Derbyshire, and was one of the leading provincial architects in the reign of George III. The house he designed
Joseph Pickford (1770) painted by Joseph Wright
Joseph Pickford's children (Joseph on the left, Thomas on the right) painted by Joseph Wright in 1778
St. Helen’s House, Derby
Mill, Chatsworth, Derbyshire
Hugh Wood (landowner)
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Hugh Wood was a landowner of Derbyshire gentry, and ran collieries in the small village of Swanwick. Hugh Wood notably owned Swanwick Hall from 1772 onwards, and knew many important Derbyshire people
Joseph Pickford
…Duke of Devonshire, William Fitzherbert of Tissington Hall and Lord Archibald Hamilton, as well as minor people of the era, such as Robert Holden and Hugh Wood. Joseph Pickford would die an untimely death in 1782 while at his home in Friar Gate, Derby. He would be buried at St.Werburghs Church, with his wife…
Hugh Wood, painting by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1789
Mary Wood (née Peake), painting by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1789
The Children of Hugh and Mary Wood of Swanwick, Derbyshire (Robert Wood b.1781, John Wood b.1776 & Mary Wood), painting by Joseph Wright of Derby