Portrait of Richard Arkwright is a 1790 portrait painting by the British artist Joseph Wright of Derby. It depicts the pioneer of the Industrial Revolution Richard Arkwright.Fraser p.130Bamford & Wallis p.78
The same year Wright e painted a Portrait of Jedediah Strutt featuring Arkwright's former business partner. The painting has been on display at the Derby Museum and Art Gallery in Wright's home city since 1993. https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/sir-richard-arkwright-17321792-61215 Wright also produced portraits of Arkwright's son Richard and his family.https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/richard-arkwright-junior-17551843-with-his-wife-mary-and-daughter-anne-61214
Arkwright's portrait was also painted by the American artist Mather Brown. His Portrait of Richard Arkwright shows the industrialist in a more fashionable style.https://ink.nbmaa.org/objects/536/sir-richard-arkwright
References
Bibliography Bamford, Lucy & Wallis, Jonathan. Joseph Wright of Derby. Derby Museums, 2017. Cosgrove Denis & Daniel's, Stephen The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design and Use of Past Environments. Cambridge University Press, 1988. Leach, Stephen H. Joseph Wright and the Final Farewell. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022.