What is John Michael Wright?
{{Orphan|date=December 2010}} [[Image:Mrs Salesbury - wright.jpg|thumb|right|250px|''Mrs Salesbury with her Grandchildren'' (c. 1676), [[Tate|Tate Collection]]<ref name='Salesbury'>{{cite web |url=http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid=20788 |title=Portrait of Mrs Salesbury with her Grandchildren Edward and Elizabeth Bagot |access-date=2008-01-09 |publisher=[[Tate]] |archive-date=2012-07-26 |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/69S2FYFFB?url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/wright-portrait-of-mrs-salesbury-with-her-grandchildren-edward-and-elizabeth-bagot-t06750 |url-status=dead }}</ref>]] '''John Michael Wright''' (May 1617 – July 1694)<ref>exact dates are unknown, the probable date of baptism is 25 May 1617 and he was buried on 1 August 1694</ref> was a [[Great Britain|British]] [[Portrait|portrait painter]] in the [[Baroque]] style. Wright was taught in Edinburgh by the [[Scotland|Scots]] painter [[George Jamesone]]. He became a famous [[artist]] and [[scholar]] during his long journey in [[Rome]]. There, he entered the Accademia di San Luca, and came to know some of the most important artists of his time. He was hired by [[Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria]], the governor of the [[Spanish Netherlands]] in 1655. His job was to find artworks in [[Oliver Cromwell]]'s England in 1655. He settled in England from 1656. He served there as a court painter before and after the [[English Restoration]]. A [[Roman Catholic]], he was favoured by the [[House of Stuart|Stuart]] court. Hired by both [[Charles II of England|Charles II]] and [[James II of England|James II]], he saw many of the [[politics|political]] experiences of the [[era]]. In the last years of the Stuart rule he went back to Rome as part of an [[embassy]] to [[Pope Innocent XI]]. Today, Wright is seen as one of the most important British painters of his time. He is important mostly because of the special [[realism]] he used in his portraits. Perhaps because of his unusual experiences, he was favoured by people of the highest level of