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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H71
People
George Dunlop Leslie, British, English (London, England 1835 - 1921 London, England)
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Copy after Mason Chamberlin, British, English (1727 - 1787 London)
Title
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), after Mason Chamberlin (1727-1787)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1855
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304935

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
135 x 104.2 cm (53 1/8 x 41 in.)
framed: 170.2 x 139.7 x 19.1 cm (67 x 55 x 7 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: Copied by G.D. Leslie 1855
  • inscription: lower left, signed: Copied by G.D. Leslie 1855/From a picture painted by M. Chamberlin. 1762.
  • label: bottom center of frame, gilded wood: Benjamin Franklin, A.M. (Hon) 1755/Original painting by Mason Chamberlin 1762/copy by George Leslie, 1855. Restored 1983 in memory of/Isabelle Virginia Kendig, Ph.D. Harvard 1933/Great-great granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin,

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift of Joshua Bates to Harvard College, 1855

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Joshua Bates to Harvard College, 1855
Object Number
H71
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 18
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 59-60
  • Charles Coleman Sellers, Benjamin Franklin in Portraiture, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1962), p. 219

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