Object Details Artist George Cannon Sitter Joseph Smith, 23 Dec 1805 - 27 Jun 1844 Credit Line Owner: Church History Museum, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Date June 1844 Object number ...

Perhaps a true-to-life biography of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Church, can never be written. Smith’s claims to accessing the divine were too outlandish, his embrace of polygamy too ...