In a letter to his daughter on June 3, 1779, Benjamin Franklin wrote about the ... Nini produced a great number of portrait medallions depicting prominent figures such as Franklin, Louis XV, Empress ...

Benjamin and Deborah were devastated and commissioned a near life-size portrait to remember their son. Four decades later in France, Franklin told a companion about his son Franky’s death until ...

Even “the commissioned portraits we have of him are no clearer ... and again in 1990 in a collection of essays, “Benjamin Franklin’s Science.” ...

Harvard College Library At some point in the year after Franky died, Benjamin commissioned a portrait of the boy. Was it an attempt to lift Deborah out of debilitating grief? Given Franklin’s ...

President Trump’s redecorated Oval Office includes a portrait of Benjamin Franklin and a fresh Andrew Jackson painting, part of an Inauguration Day overhaul of the most exclusive office space in ...

"I had to paint a portrait of Benjamin Franklin for the cover of Time magazine," he said, "and I was having trouble working from the existing portraits of him. So, I ultimately ended up using ...

LOS ANGELES – Even Michael Douglas had doubts about portraying Benjamin Franklin in ... just had to glance at Franklin's ubiquitous portrait on the $100 bill to see there wasn't much resemblance ...

Most Americans are familiar with the story of Benjamin Franklin and his famous 18th ... a game dubbed "Treason," whereby he wired up a portrait of King George so that anyone who touched the ...

On July 4, 1776, Benjamin Franklin and others were appointed to ... Finally they sought the help of a talented "drawer" and portrait artist, Pierre Eugene du Simitiere. To the post of consultant ...