Benjamin Harrison, Sr.
1783
Charles Willson Peale captured this Virginia delegate looking rather comfortable in his grey frock coat, holding a letter that identifies him as a representative from Virginia. Painted in 1783, just as the Revolutionary War was wrapping up, this portrait features Benjamin Harrison V, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the grandfather of a future U.S. president. Peale, who was basically the unofficial portraitist of the American Revolution, gives him a rosy-cheeked, sturdy look, complete with a quill pen ready for action in the background.
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