Benjamin Franklin, portrait by Anne-Rosalie Bocquet Filleul, oil on canvas, c.1778/9

Benjamin Franklin, portrait by Anne-Rosalie Bocquet Filleul

When he posed for her, French painter Anne-Rosalie Bocquet-FIlleul clearly perceived in Franklin a touch of
the libertine. (Ian Dagnall Computing/Alamy Stock Photo)

Ian Dagnall Computing/Alamy Stock Photo