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Lot 129
FRENCH SCHOOL, 18th/19th century
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin
Closed
21 January 2011
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USD 6,250
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FRENCH SCHOOL, 18th/19th century
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin
oil on canvas
42 x 33½ in.
FRENCH SCHOOL, 18th/19th century
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin
oil on canvas
42 x 33½ in.
Provenance
Arthur J. Sussel, Philadelphia, PA
Sold, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, Sale 1872, 22-24 January 1959, lot 647
Literature
William Bell Clark,
Ben Franklin's Privateers
(New York, 1956), frontispiece.
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