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William Price of Llantrisant (1800–1893) is one of the glorious eccentrics in British history. As well as being a general practitioner (he had a license to practise medicine from the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries) and a surgeon (he was a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England), he was also a druid, a prolific litigant, a vegetarian at a time when that was unusual, and leader of the Chartist Movement in Pontypridd. More controversially still, he was a practitioner of cremation (then illegal) and free love (then beyond thinking about by all right-thinking persons); and for good measure an opponent of vaccination, vivisection, law, government, and orthodox religion. He embodied many of the features of anarchism, without violence.
Title
William Price of Llantrisant, in Druidic Costume, with Goats
Date
1918
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 155.1 x W 119.9 cm
Accession number
45771i
Acquisition method
purchased by Henry S. Wellcome, c.1900–1936
Work type
Painting
Inscription description
A. C. Hemming 1918