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On Ninth Avenue, New York

by William Rickarby Miller

1879
Graphite and white chalk on paperr
10 13/16 x 13 7/8 in. (27.5 x 35.2 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Miller, William Rickarby 
Jonas Platt

by Samuel F.B. Morse

1828
oil on canvas
35 15/16 x 29 7/16 in. (91.3 x 74.8 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Morse, Samuel F.B.notes
had been an early promoter of the Erie Canal, and Morse was not only the finest portrait painter in New York, but an inventor as well. A decade after completing this work, Morse retired from his artistic career to devote himself to the development of the telegraph.
Portrait of John Adams

by Samuel F.B. Morse

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

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Morse, Samuel F.B. 
Chart of Colors

by Samuel F.B. Morse

Sanguine and graphite on paper
9 5/8 x 10 5/16 in. (24.4 x 26.2 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Morse, Samuel F.B. 
Caught Napping (Boys Caught Napping In A Field)

by William Sidney Mount

1848
oil on canvas
29 1/16 x 36 1/8 in. (73.8 x 91.7 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Mount, William Sidneynotes
ters after the Civil War, when urban centers increasingly drew people away from their native rural environments. Unlike those later versions, which tended to be sentimentally sweet, Mount portrayed these boys as mischievous, with due punishment approaching in the form of their father. Mount's insertion of the goat's skull on the tree also signaled...
Mrs. Geromus Johnson

by William Sidney Mount

1832
oil on canvas
34 x 26 15/16 in. (86.4 x 68.4 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Mount, William Sidney 
Mrs. Barnet (Catherine Bergen) Johnson

by William Sidney Mount

ca. 1839
oil on canvas
30 1/4 x 25 1/8 in. (76.8 x 63.8 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Mount, William Sidney 
Cactus In Blossom

by William Sidney Mount

1857
Oil on board
6 7/16 x 7 3/16 in. (16.4 x 18.2 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Mount, William Sidney 
Jeromus Johnson

by William Sidney Mount

1832
oil on canvas
34 1/16 x 26 7/8 in. (86.5 x 68.3 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Mount, William Sidney 
Barnet Johnson

by William Sidney Mount

ca. 1839
oil on canvas
30 1/8 x 25 1/8 in. (76.5 x 63.8 cm) Framed: 40 x 35 in. (101.6 x 88.9 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Mount, William Sidney 
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