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Samuel F.B. Morse: The Chapel of the Virgin at Subiaco
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Samuel F.B. Morse

[American Painter and Inventor, 1791-1872]

• Also known as:  Samuel Finley Breese Morse
• Subject matter:  Specializes in Portraits.
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Morse was the inventor of the electric telegraph and the Morse code, and also wrote somewhat paranoid religious-political tracts under the pen-name "Brutus".

 


 
Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Notable SiteSamuel F.B. Morse at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
4 works by Samuel F.B. Morse online

Notable SiteMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Watercolor collection online

Notable SiteMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Paintings collection online

Notable SiteSamuel F.B. Morse at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
2 works by Samuel F.B. Morse

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

Brooklyn Museum, New York City   NEW!

Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
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Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina
Robert Shand

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
The House of Representatives

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
A new museum scheduled to open in 2009
Marquis de Lafayette (study), 1825

Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire

Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina
2 portraits online

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee
Mrs. George Watson, ca.1825

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts, New York City
10 works online

Samuel F.B. Morse at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
The Morse Family

New-York Historical Society
2 paintings online

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey   NEW!

Samuel F.B. Morse at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

Samuel F.B. Morse at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
From "Getting the Picture: Illustrated Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art"

Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago
Francis I, Study for 'The Gallery of the Louvre', 1831/32
Gallery of the Louvre, 1831-33

Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
The Chapel of the Virgin at Subiaco, 1830

 
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:

Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)

 
Pictures from Image Archives:
Notable SiteSamuel F.B. Morse in the Art Renewal Center

Notable SiteSamuel F.B. Morse at CGFA  

Notable SiteSamuel F.B. Morse at The Athenaeum  
2 works online

Notable SiteWikimedia Commons Image Database  

Notable SiteWorld Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  
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The History Project at U.C. Davis   NEW!  

 
Miscellaneous Sites:
Photo Seminars Online

Why We Think Nature is Beautiful
Illustrated article by Eugene C. Hargrove

 
Articles and Reference Sites:
Notable SiteAnswers.com reference works  
The "Art Encyclopedia" entry is from the Concise Grove Dictionary of Art (2002). The "Photography Encyclopedia" entry is from the The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (2005).

Notable SiteEncyclopedia Britannica complete article on Samuel F.B. Morse  
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Notable SiteUnion List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Notable SiteWikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)   NEW!  


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