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Samuel F. B. Morse was born in Charlestown, Boston, Massachusetts, the first child of the pastor Jedidiah Morse, [1] who was also a geographer, and his wife Elizabeth Ann Finley Breese. [2] His father was a great preacher of the Calvinist faith and supporter of the Federalist Party .
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.
'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 .
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.
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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."
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