Samuel Finley Breese Morse

American inventor and painter (1791–1872)

1791 – 1872 ·

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Born: 27 April 1791, Charlestown
Died: 2 April 1872, Manhattan
Citizenship: United States
Worked in: France, Italy, London, Boston, New York City, Charleston
Educated at: Yale College, Royal Academy of Arts
Genre: portrait painting, landscape painting, history painting
Employer: New York University, New York University Tandon School of Engineering
Member of: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Phi Beta Kappa Society, American Antiquarian Society
Awards: Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, Knight Grand Officer of the Order of the Dannebrog, Knight of the Legion of Honour, National Inventors Hall of Fame, knight of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, Knight of the Order of the Tower and Sword, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Buried at: Green-Wood Cemetery
archives at: Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Library of Congress Manuscript Division
artist files at: Frick Art Research Library, National Gallery of Art Library
cause of death: pneumonia
child: Leila Morse, Samuel Arthur Breese Morse, Jr., Charles Walker Morse, Edward Lind Morse
described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, New Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Library of the World's Best Literature, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)
end of work period: 1871
family name: Morse
father: Jedidiah Morse
given name: Samuel
has works in the collection: Minneapolis Institute of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Indianapolis Museum of Art, National Museum of Fine Arts, Argentina, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
instance of: human
languages spoken, written or signed: English
manner of death: natural causes
mother: Elizabeth Breese Morse
name in native language: Samuel Finley Breese Morse
political ideology: proslavery
pseudonym: American, Brutus
sex or gender: male
sibling: Sidney Edwards Morse, Richard Cary Morse
spouse: Sarah Elizabeth Griswold
start of work period: 1820

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Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American inventor and painter. After establishing his reputation as a portrait painter, Morse, in his middle age, contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs. He was a co-developer and the namesake of Morse code in 1837 and helped to develop the commercial use of telegraphy.

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