Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Artists

Dimensions

127 x 102 cm (50 x 40 3/16 in.)

Provenance

John Franklin, Newport, RI; bequeathed to his wife, Elizabeth Gooch Hubbart Franklin,1756; bequeathed to her son (by her first marriage), Tuthill Hubbart, 1768; descended to his sister Elizabeth Hubbart (Mrs. Samuel Partridge), Boston, 1808; purchased from estate of Elizabeth Hubbart Partridge by Stephen Bean, 1814; to his wife, Susan Hubbart Bean (niece of Tuthill Hubbart); to her sister, Elizabeth Hubbart Sumner, 1828; to her husband, Dr. Thomas Waldron Sumner, Boston, 1839; sold by Sumner estate to Dr. John Collins Warren, Boston, 1849-1850; descended to his son, Dr. John Collins Warren Jr., 1856.