The telegraph inventor as an artist
Long before
Samuel Findly Breese Morse began to dream of electro-telegraphy, he was an accomplished artist.
Yes,
Professor Morse was the pupil of
West, and was the companion of
Leslie,
Irving,
Allston, and others, in busy, plodding
London.
The City Hall, of New York, (that building which came near "departing this life" at the celebration of the "completion" of the submarine telegraph cable) contains one of the best portraits of
Lafayette ever painted.
This is from the easel of
Professor Morse.
His very title of "
Professor" comes from the fact that he was the appointed
Professor of Fine Arts at the foundation of the New York University.