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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

from the Independence Seaport Museum to the lawn at the Second Bank of the United States Portrait Gallery. History lovers followed a young Benjamin Franklin re-enactor carrying “three great puffy ...

Hear about the colonial period postal service in the latest “Portraits” podcast Chris Klimek In “Postage Pairings,” from the National Portrait Gallery, host Kim Sajet speaks with the ...