Artist
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
United States
Samuel Finley Breese Morse is an United States American Folk Art artist. 19 works are cataloged here, principally at Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
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. He was a co-developer and the namesake of Morse code in 1837 and helped to develop the commercial use of telegraphy.
Works by Samuel Finley Breese Morse
Susan Walker Morse (The Muse)
Mrs. Daniel DeSaussure Bacot
De Witt Clinton
Eliphalet Terry
Lydia Coit Terry (Mrs. Eliphalet Terry)
The House of Representatives
Cyrus Mansfield
Joseph Gales
Little Miss Hone
Portrait of Mrs. John Earnest Poyas (Catherine Smith, 1769–1836)
Jonas Platt
Portrait of David C. de Forest
The Pescatory
Niagara Falls from Table Rock
The Reverend Thomas Harvey Skinner
Dr. Thomas Fuller
Mrs. Thomas Fuller (Mary Fuller)
Miracle of Saint Mark
Portrait of John Adams
Collections represented
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