Portrait of Benjamin Franklin (Wright - Corcoran), 1782
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Paris
Joseph Wright (Attributed)
Oil on canvas; H. 30 in. (76.2 cm), W. 25 in. (63.5 cm)
Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.)
A portrait survives, owned by Washington, D.C.'s Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1962, which is known through documentation to be the work of Wright for William Hodgson, Franklin's London financial manager during the years when Franklin was in France.
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