Benjamin Franklin

Artwork Details 

Title: Benjamin Franklin
Dated: c. 1746
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 127 x 102 cm (50 x 40 3/16 in.)
Location: Harvard University Art Museums
City, State: Cambridge, MA
Credit Line:
Bequest of Dr. John Collins Warren
Provenance:
John Franklin, Boston (Benjamin Franklin's brother); purchased by John or Benjamin(?); bequeathed to John Franklin's wife, Elizabeth Gooch Hubbart Franklin,1756; descended to son, Tuthill Hubbart, 1768 (Hubbart was Mrs. Franklin's son from her first marriage); descended to sister, Elizabeth Hubbart (Mrs. Samuel Partridge), Boston, 1808; purchased from estate of Elizabeth Hubbart Partridge by Stephen Bean, 1814; descended in family to Mrs. Stephen Bean (Susan Hubbart) (Susan Hubbart Bean was the neice of Tuthill Hubbart); to Elizabeth Hubbart Sumner (sister of Susan Bean), 1828; to Dr. Thomas Waldron Sumner, Boston (husband of Elizabeth Hubbart Sumner), 1839; sold by Sumner estate to Dr. John Collins Warren, Boston, 1849-1850; descended in family to son, J.S. Warren, 1856; his bequest to Harvard University, 1856.
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