LOS ANGELES – Even Michael Douglas had doubts about portraying Benjamin Franklin in the Oscar-winning actor's first period drama. Douglas, 79, who famously proclaimed "Greed is Good" in his ...

Portrait Medallion of Benjamin Franklin, 1777, terracotta, by Jean Baptiste Nini, Italian, 1717–1786. In a letter to his daughter on June 3, 1779, Benjamin Franklin wrote about the wide dissemination ...

LOS ANGELES – Even Michael Douglas had doubts about portraying Benjamin Franklin in the Oscar-winning actor's first period drama. Douglas, 79, who famously proclaimed "Greed is Good" in his ...

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 ...

Historical Notes on Original Portraits of Benjamin Franklin. Full text is unavailable for this digitized archive article. Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its original form ...

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 ...

Benjamin Franklin portrait from 1778, by Joseph Siffred Duplessis. Writing when he was 79 years old, Franklin tells us in his autobiography that in his youth he’d listed a dozen virtues he ...

Portrait of Benjamin Franklin (1789) by Charles Willson Peale. ... “A leader has a vision.”) In part because Benjamin Franklin had such a multifarious career—printer, writer, humorist, ...