[1] Wright is recorded as creating at least 55 works; only her full-length figure of Lord Chatham (William Pitt) survives.

[3] At age 16, she left the family home and moved to Philadelphia, where in 1748 she married Joseph Wright, a barrelmaker who was many years her senior.

[4] The sisters set up a business molding portraits in tinted wax, a popular art form in colonial America, and charged admission to see them.

[3] Wright settled in the West End and set up a popular waxworks show of historical tableaux and celebrity wax figures.

She was honored with an invitation to model King George III, and would go on to sculpt other members of British royalty and nobility.

She used body heat to keep the wax at a temperature where she could shape it, molding it under her apron in a suggestive manner, which scandalized viewers and was even parodied in newspaper cartoons.

[1] Wright fell from royal favor as a result of her open support for the colonial cause, especially after she reportedly scolded the king and queen after the 1775 battles of Lexington and Concord.

[3] Wright is said to have worked as a spy during the American Revolution, sending information back to the colonies inside her wax figures.

[9][10][11] A group of pro-American activists, including Lord George Gordon, Benjamin West, and Anthony Pasquin, would meet at her London workshop to discuss their cause.

[1] Wright returned to England in 1782 and settled with her daughter Phoebe and her son-in-law, painter John Hoppner, at their home on Charles Street at St. James's Square.

Her sister Rachel attempted to get financial assistance for her burial expenses, both from prominent American citizens and then from the Continental Congress, but was not successful.