Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), c1837. George Frederic Watts (1817-1904). A preliminary sketch for a very early work by Watts, it was created from the embalmed body of the sitter. Bentham was a leading theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law. A political radical his ideas influenced the development of welfarism. He advanced individual and economic freedom, the seperation of church and state, freedom of expression, equal rights for women, the right to divorce and the decriminalising of homosexual acts. He famously left a will detailing that upon his death he be dissected and preserved.

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