1777-1785
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin
Franklin brought this miniature from France to Philadelphia as a present for his daughter, Sarah Franklin Bache. It is a small version of the Joseph-Siffred Duplessis portrait of which Franklin approved. The miniaturist Graincourt is known to have exhibited a miniature like this one at the 1779 Salon de la Correspondence in Paris.
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