Samuel Finley Breese Morse

1791–1872 · United States

Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American inventor and painter. After establishing his reputation as a portrait painter, Morse, in his middle age, contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs. Wikipedia

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Works

“Gallery of the Louvre”, 1833 — Terra Foundation for American Art
“Marquis de Lafayette”, 1825 — Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
“Portrait of James Monroe”, 1819 — White House
“The House of Representatives”, 1822 — Corcoran Gallery of Art
“Jonas Platt”, 1828 — Brooklyn Museum
“Portrait of John Adams”, 1816 — Brooklyn Museum
“Chapel of the Virgin at Subiaco”, 1830 — Worcester Art Museum
“Cyrus Mansfield”, 1808 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Susan Walker Morse (The Muse)”, 1835 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“De Witt Clinton”, 1826 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Mrs. Daniel DeSaussure Bacot”, 1820 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Niagara Falls from Table Rock” — Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“The Reverend Thomas Harvey Skinner” — Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“Dr. Thomas Fuller” — Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“The Pescatory”, 1834 — National Gallery of Art
“Scene from Spenser’s "Fairie Queene": Una and the Dwarf”, 1827 — Toledo Museum of Art
“George Clarke”, 1829 — Saint Louis Art Museum
“Mrs. James Ladson (Judith Smith)” — Gibbes Museum of Art
“Portrait of Mrs. John Earnest Poyas (Catherine Smith, 1769–1836)” — Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
“Alexander Metcalf Fisher (1794-1822), B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816”, 1822 — Yale University Art Gallery
“Mrs. David Curtis DeForest (Julia Wooster), (1795-1873)”, 1823 — Yale University Art Gallery
“Jeremiah Day (1773-1867), B.A. 1795, M.A. 1789”, 1823 — Yale University Art Gallery
“Eli Whitney (1765-1825) B.A. 1792, M.A. 1795”, 1822 — Yale University Art Gallery
“Mrs. Thomas Fuller (Mary Fuller)” — Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“Miracle of Saint Mark”, 1831 — Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“Portrait of Dr. James E. B. Finley”
“Portrait of David C. de Forest”, 1823 — National Museum of Fine Arts, Argentina
“Joseph Gales”, 1821 — Corcoran Gallery of Art
“Samuel F. B. Morse Self-Portrait”, 1812 — National Portrait Gallery
“Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826), B.A. 1783, M.A. 1786”, 1810 — Yale University Art Gallery
“Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826) B.A. 1783, M.A. 1786”, 1820–1822 — Yale University Art Gallery
“Dying Hercules”, 1812 — Yale University Art Gallery
“Eliphalet Terry”, 1824
“Lydia Coit Terry (Mrs. Eliphalet Terry)”, 1824
“The Goldfish Bowl (Mrs. Richard Cary Morse and Family)”, 1835 — Smithsonian American Art Museum
“Little Miss Hone”, 1824 — Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“Mrs. Addin Lewis (Fanny Lewis) (1790-1832)”, 1830 — Yale University Art Gallery
“Reverend (1789-1869) and Mrs. Hiram Bingham (Sybil Mosely, d. 1848)”, 1819 — Yale University Art Gallery
“The Judgment of Jupiter”, 1814 — Yale University Art Gallery
“Dr. (d.1826) and Mrs. Thomas Holman (Lucia Ruggles), (d.1886)”, 1819 — Yale University Art Gallery