Portrait of Dr Richard Price
Portrait of Dr Richard Price | |
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Artist | Benjamin West |
Year | 1784 (1784) |
Dimensions | 71 cm × 94 cm (28 in × 37 in) |
Location | National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth |
The Portrait of Dr Richard Price, is an oil on canvas by the American painter Benjamin West from 1784.[1]
Description
The picture was sold at Christie's on 23 November 2004 and purchased by the Friends of the National Library of Wales.
The picture's dimensions are 28 x 37 inches.
Analysis
Richard Price (1723–1791) was a radical and author. The portrait depicts him sitting in his office reading a letter from his friend Benjamin Franklin, dated 1784.
Price noted the sitting for this portrait in his diary, which is held today, like the picture itself, in the collection of the National Library of Wales, in Aberystwyth. This is the final portrait. Two similar images exist, perhaps studies for this picture: one held in Wales' National Museum in Cardiff, and one at the Royal Society in London.
The artist
West was born in Springfield, Pennsylvania. He travelled and painted many portraits, and has been called "the American Raphael". He died at Newman Street in London, on 11 March 1820. He is buried in St Paul's Cathedral.[2]
References
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- General Johnson Saving a Wounded French Officer from the Tomahawk of a North American Indian (1764–1768)
- Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus (1768)
- The Death of General Wolfe (1770)
- Penn's Treaty with the Indians (1771–1772)
- Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (Captain David Hill) (1776)
- Fidelia and Speranza (1776)
- The Battle of the Boyne (1778)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Reception of the American Loyalists by Great Britain in the Year 1783 (1783–1811; lost)
- Portrait of Dr Richard Price (1784)
- Death on the Pale Horse (1796, 1817)
- The Death of Nelson (1806)
- Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky (c. 1816)
- Benjamin West Birthplace
- Square Tavern (boyhood home)