| 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 of the Louvre and The House of Representatives. . . .
- Paul Staiti, Alumnae Foundation Professor of Fine Arts
Mount Holyoke College |
Text excerpted from A Capital Collection: Masterworks from
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