William Price of Llantrisant, in druidic costume, with goats. Oil painting by A C Hemming, 1918.

  • Hemming, A. C. (Alfred Charles), active approximately 1904-1933.
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1918
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45771i
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William Price of Llantrisant, in druidic costume, with goats. Oil painting by A C Hemming, 1918. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Physician, surgeon, litigant and Druid; vegetarian and Chartist; practitioner of cremation and free love; opponent of vaccination, vivisection, law, government, and orthodox religion. After the Chartist march on Newport in 1839, he fled to France dressed as a woman and became acquainted with Heinrich Heine. His cremation of the body of his son Iesu Grist in 1884 established the legality of cremation as a means of disposal of the dead in England and Wales

In the background, part of the ruins of Llantrisant Castle

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1918

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1 painting : oil on canvas ; canvas 155.1 x 119.9 cm

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A. C. Hemming 1918

References note

Christopher Wright et al., British and Irish paintings in public collections, New Haven and London: Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2006, p. 409

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Wellcome Collection 45771i

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