Portrait of Jedediah Strutt is a 1790 portrait painting by the British artist Joseph Wright of Derby.Bamford & Wallis p.80 It depicts the English manufacturer of clothes and cotton spinner Jedediah Strutt. It was produced the same year as another large painting by Wright of a self-made Derby industrialist Richard Arkwright, a former business partner of Strutt .However, Strutt chose to be depicted with books rather than as an industrialist.Leach p.193-94
Today the painting is in the collection of the Derby Museum and Art Gallery, having been acquired in 1976.https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/jedediah-strutt-17261797-61205
References
Bibliography Bamford, Lucy & Wallis, Jonathan. Joseph Wright of Derby. Derby Museums, 2017. Leach, Stephen H. Joseph Wright and the Final Farewell. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022.