Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9279
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Portrait of Richard Price
Date
1788
Sitter
Richard Price (1723 - 1791, British) , Philosopher
Creator
Benjamin West (1738 - 1820, American) , Painter
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 925mm
width (painting): 725mm
width (painting): 725mm
Subject
Description
A three-quarter length seated portrait of the dissenter. Price wears a high-collared black coat and wig. His left arm leans against a table on which there is a copy of the Analogy of religion by Joseph Butler (1692-1752). He holds a sheet of paper, with a pair of spectacles in his right hand. The background bookcase volumes are not identifiable.
Richard Price was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1765.
Richard Price was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1765.
Transcription
RICHARD PRICE, F.R.S.
By B.WEST.
By B.WEST.
Object history
Bequeathed by Arthur Morgan FRS, 1876 [The Record of the Royal Society of London (London, Harrison and Sons, 1901), p.183].
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