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| Keywords: Richard Arkwright Junior.jpg artwork creator Joseph Wright of Derby Sir Richard Arkwright of Cromford Derbyshire Richard Arkwright Junior 1755 - 1843 was the financier creditor of Samuel Oldknow of Marple and Mellor and a personal friend Sir Richard the father had earlier patented the water frame a roller-spinning machine powered by water that turned textile spinning into a factory industry and in so doing he founded the factory system of manufacture Richard Arkwright Junior followed in his illustrious father ™s footsteps and he developed the factory system even further He was an outstanding organiser of labour and machinery processing ambitious forceful and persevering http //www artfund org/artwork/8938/portrait-of-richard-arkwright-junior-with 1790 technique oil canvas cm 244 158 5 institution Derby Museum and Art Gallery object history By family descent in the Arkwright family; Sotheby's 2001; private collection; Nevill Keating Pictures Ltd 2003 credit line accession number 2003-153 PD-old-100 Richard Arkwright 18th-century promenade portraits of families British promenade portraits Works by Joseph Wright of Derby in the Derby Museum and Art Gallery Shoe buckles in art Images from Sotheby's Images from Artfund org | ||||
