Samuel Finley Breese Morse

By descent in the family of the sitter to the present owner

Oil on canvas, canvas is lined. Surface: In generally good condition aside from scattered pindots of loss, mostly in the background and a network of very fine pigment separation throughout. UNDERE UV: There are a few very small dots and dashes of inpainting.
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Charles Brickett Haddock was a noted diplomat, legislator, and professor of Intellectual Philosophy at Dartmouth College. It has been theorized that this portrait was painted in the summer of 1816, shortly after Haddock's graduation from Dartmouth, as Morse was painting in Hanover New Hampshire at this time.