In a letter to his daughter on June 3, 1779, Benjamin Franklin wrote about the wide dissemination of his likeness through prints, busts, and pictures. He believed his face had become “as well known as ...

A portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Feke, the American painter, is the feature of the Eliot House library. The picture, which hangs directly over the fire-place, is the earliest known portrait of ...

Benjamin Franklin organized the Union Fire Company in Philadelphia in 1736. Over 100 years later, a fire company may have commissioned this painting to adorn a firehouse and recognize Franklin's ...