Lightning Man_ The Accursed Life of Samuel F. B. Morse - Kenneth Silverman [267]
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—Jane Mallison, gloriosa donna de la mia mente.
Kenneth Silverman
Washington Square and Highland Lake
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Samuel F. B. Morse, Self Portrait (1812–13). Oil on canvas, 30 X 25 in. © Addi-son Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. All rights reserved.
Samuel F. B. Morse, Self Portrait (ca. 1809). Watercolor on ivory, 3¼ X 2 5/8 in. National Academy of Design, New York (accession #8g4-P). Gift of Samuel P. Avery, John G. Brown, Thomas B. Clarke, Lockwood de Forest, Daniel Huntington, James C. Nicoll, and Harry W. Watrous, 1900.
Washington Allston, Self Portrait (1805). Oil on canvas, 31V8 X 26 V2 in. Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Bequest of Miss Alice Hooper.
Samuel F. B. Morse, Morse Family Portrait Group (CA. 1809). Watercolor on paper, 12 X 15 in. Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History. MAH-34215; negative no. 34215.
Samuel F. B. Morse, The Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth (CA. 1810–11). Oil on canvas, 36 X 48 in. Courtesy of the Trustees of the Boston Public Library.
Samuel F. B. Morse, Dying Hercules (1812). Oil on canvas, 96 /4X 78 /8 in. Yale University Art Gallery. Gift of the artist.
Samuel F. B. Morse, Reverend (1789–1869) and Mrs. Hiram Bingham (Sybil Mosely, d. 1848) (1819). Oil on academy board, 10 X 8 in. Yale University Art Gallery. Gift of Hiram Bingham, B.A., 1898.
Samuel F. B. Morse, Lucretia Pickering Walker Morse (ca. 1818–19). Oil on canvas, 30/8 X 25/16 in. Mead Art Museum, Amherst College (AC 1945. 78). Bequest of Herbert L. Pratt, class of 1895. 55. Samuel F. B. Morse, James Monroe (1819–20). Oil on canvas, 29V2 X 24V8 in. White House Collection. Courtesy of the White House Historical Association.
Samuel F. B. Morse, The House of Representatives (1822–23). Oil on canvas, X 130 3/4 in. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (accession #11.14).
Sidney E. Morse (ca. 1860). New-York Historical Society, #72713. Lithographer unknown.
Samuel F. B. Morse, William Cullen Bryant (1828–29). Oil on canvas, 30 X 25 in. National Academy of Design, New York (accession #892-P).
Samuel F. B. Morse, DeWitt Clinton (1826). Oil on canvas, 30 1/16 X 25 3/16 in. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 190g (og.18). The Metropolitan Museum of Art. All rights reserved.
Samuel F. B. Morse, The Marquis de Lafayette (1825–26). Oil on canvas, 94 X 64 in. City Hall, New York. Courtesy of the Art Commission of the City of New York.
Horatio Greenough, Samuel F. B. Morse (1831). Marble, 19 1/2 X 12 X 8 3/4 in. Smithsonian Museum of American Art.
Samuel F. B. Morse, Contadina of Nattuno at the Shrine of the Madonna (1830). Oil on canvas, 21 1/2 X 17 1/2 in. © Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. The Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund.
Samuel F. B. Morse, Grand Gallery of the Louvre (1831–33). Oil on canvas, 73 3/4 in. Terra Foundation for the Arts, Daniel J. Terra Foundation (1992.51). Photograph courtesy of Terra Foundation for the Arts, Chicago.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY (CA. 1835). New York University Archives, Bobst Library, New York University.
SAMUEL F. B. MORSE, ALLEGORICAL LANDSCAPE SHOWING NEW YORK UNIVERSITY (1836). Oil on canvas, 22½ by 36¼ finches. Collection of the NewYork Historical Society, #6326.
Samuel F. B. Morse, The Reverend Thomas Harvey Skinner (ca. 1836). Oil on paperboard, 29 1/2 X 24 5/8 in. Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Paintings, 1815–1865.
Samuel F. B. Morse, The Muse—Susan Walker Morse (ca. 1835–37). Oil on canvas, 73 3/4 x 56 6/8 in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, bequest of Herbert L. Pratt, 1945 (45.62.1). The Metropolitan Museum of Art. All rights reserved.
Morse’s original telegraph apparatus,