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The House of Representatives
Samuel F. B. Morse
1822, probably reworked 1823 · oil on canvas
Dimensions overall: 220.7 × 331.8 cm (86 7/8 × 130 5/8 in.)
Collection: National Gallery of Art
Before achieving fame in the 1840s as the inventor of the telegraph, Samuel F. B. Morse was a portraitist of some renown. He sought to cement his reputation as a painter by attempting a grand work of ...
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