Oil on canvas. This portrait of philosopher John Locke was made after Godfrey Kneller’s original version (Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia), painted in the year of Locke’s death. The original was commissioned by fellow philosopher Anthony Collins, who began an intense friendship with Locke in 1703. Locke treated Collins as his son and intellectual successor and Collins arranged for some of Locke's letters and manuscripts to be published in 1720.
