# Benjamin Franklin

- By: Joseph Siffred Duplessis (22 Sep 1725 - 1 Apr 1802)
- Date: c. 1785
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: Stretcher: 72.4 x 59.7 x 3.8cm (28 1/2 x 23 1/2 x 1 1/2")
- Culture: Europe
- Credit line: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.87.43)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/f6c2db75dc3c0f054abdc3f7d8e7a59f.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Born Boston, Massachusetts