Benjamin and Deborah were devastated and commissioned a near life-size portrait to remember their son. Four decades later in France, Franklin told a companion about his son Franky’s death until ...

click image for close-up Like many of Charles Willson Peale's portraits, his 1783 oil painting of Benjamin Rush sought to portray the intellectual qualities and political sensibilities of the subject.

It is the only known photograph of Capt Francis Crozier An original portrait photograph of a famous Arctic explorer, taken shortly before the doomed Franklin expedition, will be auctioned in ...