Samuel F. B. Morse: Patron of the Arts and Science

Biographical profile of Samuel F. B. Morse, one of America's foremost painters and world-renowned inventor. A fresco in the U.S. Capitol building depicts three great American inventors, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Fulton, and Samuel F. B. Morse with Minerva, the goddess of the arts, apropos because Morse first became a famous American painter and sculptor with such works as Dying Hercules (Metropolitan Museum of Art collection) and the portrait of Marquis de Lafayette . Called the "American L...