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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.
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 .
Samuel Finley Brown Morse was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the son of Clara Rebecca (Boit) and George Washington Morse, a soldier in the American Civil War and later a lawyer in Massachusetts. [1] Morse's distant cousin, Samuel Morse was the inventor of the telegraph and Morse Code. Morse attended Andover, like his father, and then Yale.
Jedidiah Morse [1] (August 23, 1761 – June 9, 1826) was an American geographer and preacher whose textbooks became a staple for students in the United States. He was the father of the telegraphy pioneer and painter Samuel Morse, and his textbooks earned him the sobriquet of "father of American geography."
Portrait of James Monroe is a c.1819 portrait painting by the American artist Samuel Morse of the President of the United States James Monroe. [1]Monroe was the fifth president to hold office, and the fourth from Virginia.
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Morse was then associated with his elder brother, Samuel Morse, in patenting the flexible piston pump and extending its sale. 1825 map of Asia by Morse In 1823, Morse moved to New York and, with his brother, Richard Cary Morse, founded the New York Observer , which eventually became the oldest weekly in New York City and the oldest religious ...
John White (c. 1540–c. 1606), artist-illustrator, surveyor; Jacob Gerritse Strycker (1615–1687), artist, possibly of the Rembrandt studios; Thomas Smith (died c. 1691), painter