Portrait of Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Size:L: 80 x 60cm The Alfred's Head Inn on

The Alfred's Head Inn on the corner of Newington Causeway and London Road

'Isabella'

View of mountains with a boy playing a pipe in the foreground and a village in the distance

in his fireman's helmet

Portrait of Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Size:L: 80 x 60cm The Alfred's Head Inn onFranklin is painted seated at half length, his upper body angled to the viewer's right, gazing forward. He has natural grey shoulder length hair, thinning at the forehead. Franklin wears a red coat and waistcoat, the latter half unbuttoned, showing a white shirt and neck cloth. A gilded chair is just visible behind. Benjamin Franklin was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1756. Original: oil on canvas, 755x640mm. 1782