Dan Jonsson: Benjamin Franklin

Artist: Dan Jonsson
1933 -
Nationality: Swedish
Artwork Year: 1983
Image Size: 17 by 15.75 inches
Overall Size: 28.5 by 20.25 inches
Medium: Mixed Media on Cold Press Illustration Board

One of America's greatest patriots, Benjamin Franklin, was truly a jack-of-all-trades and a master of many. Throughout his entire life, he constantly sought for knowledge and understanding, and for ways to be of greater service to his fellow man. During his long and useful life, Franklin concerned himself with such various matters as statesmanship and soapmaking, book-printing and cabbage growing, America's independence and foreign diplomacy. As a statesman, Franklin stood in the front ranks of the men who built the United States. Truly, Franklin's services as a minister to foreign nations played a key role in procuring the foreign aid America needed to win the Revolutionary War. Many historians consider him the ablest and most successful diplomat that America ever sent abroad. In addition, he was the only man who was privileged to sign all five of these key documents in American history: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, the Treaty of Alliance with France, the Treaty of Peace with Great Britain, and the famed Treaty of Amity and Commerce with Sweden. This important treaty with Sweden was signed in Paris on April 3, 1783, by America's Benjamin Franklin and by Sweden's Baron Gustaf Philip Creutz. The first of the treaty's twenty-nine articles proclaimed that "there shall be a firm, inviolable, and universal peace and a true and sincere friendship" between the United States and Sweden.

This painting was originally published on the Fleetwood® First Day Cover for the U.S. 20¢ Treaty of Amity and Commerce stamp issued March 24, 1983.

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