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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.
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As Monroe was frequently called away, Morse was only able to manage brief sittings. Nonetheless, his completed full-length portrait was praised and the Academy of Arts in New York asked to exhibit it. [4] At the request of the President's daughter, Morse also produced a shorter copy of the President's head and shoulders.
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'Gallery of the Louvre is an 1833 oil painting by the American artist Samuel Morse. It depicts a view of the Louvre in Paris. [1]Morse had trained in London. On returning to the United States he developed a reputation as a portraitist including his 1819 depiction of James Monroe However, he is better known today as an inventor who gave his name to the Morse Code.
Marquis de Lafayette (or Portrait of La Fayette) is an oil on canvas painting by Samuel Morse, from 1825. Mostly known for his invention of the telegraph , Morse was also an artist and a professor of painting and sculpture at the University of the City of New York .
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...
The Clay portrait was donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1909 by Miss Grace H Dodge, and attributed to the painter Samuel Morse. Given the donor's attribution, the museum labeled the portrait as being "painted by Samuel F. B. Morse." The signature on the painting appeared to read "Morse, Jany. 1843".