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Samuel F. B. Morse

American, 1791

WA-00047908

Charleston, SC, United States

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Artworks (14)

Head of a Man (from McGuire Scrapbook)

1840 · Pen and iron-gall ink on off-white wove paper

8 1/8 x 7 3/8 in. (20.6 x 18.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[Portrait of a Young Man]

1840 · Daguerreotype

Image: 5 x 4.2 cm (1 15/16 x 1 5/8 in.), oval

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Goldfish Bowl (Mrs. Richard Cary Morse and Family)

1835 · oil on wood

29 5/8 x 24 3/4 in. (75.3 x 63 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

The Pescatory

1834 · graphite and red colored pencil on wove paper

sheet: 11.11 × 14.61 cm (4 3/8 × 5 3/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Susan Walker Morse (The Muse)

1833 · Oil on canvas

73 3/4 x 57 5/8 in. (187.3 x 146.4 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

De Witt Clinton

1826 · Oil on canvas

30 x 25 1/8 in. (76.2 x 63.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Lydia Coit Terry (Mrs. Eliphalet Terry)

1824 · oil on canvas

overall: 75.8 x 63 cm (29 13/16 x 24 13/16 in.) framed: 101.9 x 88.9 x 7.6 cm (40 1/8 x 35 x 3 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Eliphalet Terry

1824 · oil on canvas

overall: 75.7 x 63.2 cm (29 13/16 x 24 7/8 in.) framed: 104.1 x 88.9 x 7.9 cm (41 x 35 x 3 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The House of Representatives

1822 · oil on canvas

overall: 220.7 × 331.8 cm (86 7/8 × 130 5/8 in.) framed: 256.5 × 363.2 × 10.5 cm (101 × 143 × 4 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

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Portrait of a Gentleman

1822 · Oil on canvas

76.8 × 63.5 cm (30 1/4 × 25 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Joseph Gales

1821 · oil on wood

overall: 13.97 × 8.89 cm (5 1/2 × 3 1/2 in.) framed: 26.04 × 22.54 × 5.08 cm (10 1/4 × 8 7/8 × 2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Study for The House of Representatives

1821 · oil on panel

8 1/4 x 13 3/4 in. (20.9 x 35.0 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Mrs. Daniel DeSaussure Bacot

1817 · Oil on canvas

30 x 24 3/4 in. (76.2 x 62.9 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Cyrus Mansfield

1805 · Watercolor on ivory

2 5/8 x 1 5/16 in. (6.8 x 4.9 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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14 published of 14 catalogued · 13 with image

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Nga
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Smithsonian
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Art Institute Chicago
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