Samuel Morse’s Moving Portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette

Samuel Morse came to Washington in February 1825, an ambitious but frustrated 33-year-old artist. Before the discovery of telegraphy and the code that bears his name, he was nearly as well known for his paintings as for his father, the famed geographer Jedidiah Morse . Or as the Marquis de…

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