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This artist may have been inspired by Salvator Rosa’s Democritus in Meditation to paint a hermit philosopher studying in a cavern entrance in one work. This artist created several views of Virgil’s tomb during a trip to Italy that also inspired his view of Vesuvius erupting from Posillipo. The cartographer Peter Perez Burdett modeled for a figure taking notes from a red-cloaked man near an astronomical diagram in one of this artist’s paintings. Two assistants stand at the back of a vaulted room and watch an (*) alchemist handle a tube of phosphorus in one of this artist’s paintings. (10[1])This member of Erasmus Darwin’s Lunar Society painted a long-haired scientist handles a glass vacuum chamber in one of his many candlelit (-5[1])scenes. For 10 points name this British artist of A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery and An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump. ■END■

ANSWER: Joseph Wright of Derby
<Strombeck, Painting and Sculpture>
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Vincent DuUNC ADuke9710
John StathisUNC HunnyUNC B119-5

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2024 ESPN @ Chicago03/23/2024Y667%17%33%87.00
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