Daguerreotype - Portrait of Samuel Morse

This head-and-shoulders portrait of Samuel Morse is a daguerreotype made between 1844 and 1860 from the studio of Mathew B Brady. Samuel Morse, inventor of the telegraph, was also considered one of the finest portrait painters of the Romantic Style in America, had studied art in Paris, where he met Louis Daguerre inventor of the daguerreotype. Upon returning to the U.S., Morse set up his own photographic studio in New York. He was among the first in America to make portraits using the new daguerreotype method.