A Life Rediscovered: The Quiet Portraits of Benjamin Greenleaf For many years, the name Benjamin Greenleaf was associated with a prominent American educator and textbook author. It wasn’t until 1981 that art historians established him as a distinct individual – a largely self-taught portraitist who quietly documented the lives of New Englanders during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Born in Hull, Massachusetts on January 13, 1…