Samuel+F.+B.+Morse

Date: 1831
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1919/1919.1.1_1a.jpg?itok=ICD1DNsX width="264" height="344" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/samuel-f-b-morse-9574"]] || Title: **Samuel F. B. Morse**

Artist: **Horatio Greenough** Born: Boston, Massachusetts 1805 Died: Somerville, Massachusetts 1852

Medium: marble Dimensions: 19 1/2 x 12 x 8 3/4 in. (49.5 x 30.5 x 22.2 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Edward L. Morse

Accession: 1919.1.1 || Samuel F. B. Morse, artist and inventor, was living in Italy when close friend and sculptor, Horatio Greenough, created this portrait. Shortly after, Morse wrote to a friend, “Mr. Greenough has just completed a bust of me, which all say is an excellent likeness.” The slight turn of the head, hint of a smile, and veining of the left temple indicate Greenough's penchant for naturalism. The armless, nude torso, stylized hair, and blank eyes, however, reveal the sculptor's equal ability to idealize figures.
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