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The House of Representatives

1822 - 1823
oil on canvas
86-1/2 x 130-3/4 in.

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C.

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Before achieving fame as the inventor of the electromagnetic telegraph and the Morse code in the 1840s, Samuel F. B. Morse was best known as a major painter and as president of the National Academy of Design in New York City. His stock-in-trade as an artist was romantic portraiture. But he also painted two extraordinary subject pictures, The Gallery...
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The Goldfish Bowl (Mrs. Richard Cary Morse and Family)

ca. 1835
oil on wood
29 5/8 x 24 3/4 in. (75.3 x 63 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

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Susan Walker Morse (The Muse)

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

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Study for the Old House of Representatives

ca. 1821
oil on panel
8 1/4 x 13 3/4 in. (20.9 x 35.0 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

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Self Portrait

1812-1813
oil on canvas
30 in. x 25 in. (76.2 cm x 63.5 cm)

Addison Gallery of Art

Andover, MA

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Portrait of John Adams

1816
oil on canvas
29 3/4 x 24 15/16 in. (75.5 x 63.4 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

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Nathan Parker

January 1817
Oil on millboard
30.4 x 25.4 cm (11 15/16 x 10 in.) framed: 39 x 33.5 x 5.72 cm (15 3/8 x 13 3/16 x 2 1/4 in.)

Harvard University Art Museums

Cambridge, MA

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Mrs. Jedidiah Morse (Elizabeth Ann Breese)

c. 1820
Oil on panel
25.4 x 20 cm (10 x 7 7/8 in.) framed: 38.1 x 33 x 5.7 cm (15 x 13 x 2 1/4 in.)

Harvard University Art Museums

Cambridge, MA

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Mrs. Daniel DeSaussure Bacot

ca. 1820
oil on canvas
30 x 24 3/4 in. (76.2 x 62.9 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Lydia Coit Terry (Mrs. Eliphalet Terry)

c. 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

Washington, D.C.

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