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| Keywords: Dr Richard Price, DD, FRS - Benjamin West contrasted.jpg The sitter is shown is his study reading a letter dated 1784 from Benjamin Franklin a close friend of Price over many years Price recorded sitting for the portrait in his short-hand journal The journal is now in the collection of the Nationial Library NLW MS 20721A This portrait is the only official image of this highly important moral philosopher There exist three versions this present oil painting a contemporary version now at the Royal Society and a 19th century copy in the Collection of the National Museum of Wales The frame was specially commissioned using funds provided by the Friends of the Library It is a Maretti gilded frame in a style contemporary with the painting 1784 oil on canvas 1850 x 875 mm Institution National Library of Wales object history Christie's; Purchase; 27012005 credit line accession number 4655777 PD-old thumb left Original Version Paintings in the National Library of Wales Images uploaded as part of NLW - WMUK collaboration Portraits Portraits by Benjamin West Richard Price 1784 oil on canvas paintings in the United Kingdom 1784 1784 portrait paintings Male 18th-century oil portraits of sitting men at half length 1784 18th-century portrait paintings in the United Kingdom 1784 Taken with Hasselblad Imacon Ixpress 132C | ||||
