Breguet et fils - Watch with Benjamin Franklin - Walters 58147
Summary
The image of Franklin reading beside a bust of Isaac Newton is based on a portrait painted in London in 1766-1767 by David Martin (English, 1737-1798). Breguet et fils was a firm founded in Paris in 1775 by Abraham Breguet, an immigrant from Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
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Date
1798
Source
Walters Art Museum
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