National Postal Museum
Painting of Benjamin Franklin
Charles Ayer Whipple, 1859 - 1928 · 1885-1911
The oil painting of Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) rendered by artist Charles Ayers Whipple is a copy of Joseph Siffred Duplessis’s famous life portrait of Franklin commissioned while Franklin was in Paris in 1779. This composition is similar to the portrait (museum id 0.23371.1) painted by artist Lloyd Branson that is also in National Postal Museum's collection.
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