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 MOUSE the Royal Academy, where lie won in 1855 the silver medal for the best drawing from life, and in 1858 the gold medal for the best historical painting, The Good Samaritan, and also the travelling stu- dentship, which en- abled him to spend some time in France y J and Italy. Elected * an A.R.A. in 1877. Medal, 2d class, Antwerp Exhibition, 1885. Works : Voices from the Sea, Widow's Har- vest (1860) ; Captives' Return (1801) ; Where they crucified Him (1864) ; Jesu Salvator, Battle Scar (18G5) ; Riven Shield (1866) ; Drift Wreck from the Armada (1867) ; Am- buscade (I860) ; Summit of Calvary (1871); Highland Pastoral (1872); Whereon ho Died j (1873) ; End of the Journey (1874) ; The Mowers (1875) ; Sailor's Wedding (187G) ; Lost Heir, Heir of the Manor (1877); The Tomb, First Communion (1878) ; Bathers Alarmed (1879) ; Sons of the Brave (1880) ; Queen's Shilling (1881); Sale of the Boat, (1882) ; Foes or Friends, Tambour Minor, Promenade (1883) ; Joy and Sorrow, Quito Ready, Sweethearts and Wives (1884) ; The First Prince of Wales (1885). Art Journal (1872), 161 ; (1878), iii. 212. MORSE, SAMUEL FINLEY BREESE, born i n Charles- town, Mass., April 27, 1791, died in New York, April 2, 1872. Figure and portrait painter; graduated at Yale College in 1810, and became a pupil of Washington Allston, whom he accompan- ied in the following year to London, where he studied also under Benjamin West. In 1813 he was awarded a gold medal by the Adelphi Society of Arts for an original mod- el of a Dying Hercules. He returned to the United States in 1815, and after paint- ing in Boston, and Charleston, S. C., re- moved in 1822 to New York, where, in 1826, he became one of the original founders of the National Academy of Design, of which he was president in 1827-45, and again in 1861-62. In 1829 he revisited Europe and spent three years in study in Rome, Paris, and other art centres, but ten years later abandoned the profession to devote him- self to scientific investigations ; and he is now better known as the inventor of the system of magneto-electric telegraphy which bears his name than as a painter. Works : Death of Hercules (1813) ; Judgment of Jupiter (1814) ; House of Representatives at Washington (H. 8 ft. x 11 ft., 1822), Dan- iel Huntington, New York ; Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman (1826); Una and the Dwarf, CVzenovia Lake, Trenton Falls (1828) ; Gallery of the Louvre (1832-33), George Clark, Otsego ; Amain, The Wet- terhorn and Falls of the Reicheubach, Brig- and Alarmed, Pifferari (1833) ; Helicon and Aganippe, Sunset View of St. Peter's (18IS6); Portraits of President Monroe, Chancellor Kent, DeWitt Clinton, Lafayette, Fitz- Greenc Halleck, William Cullen Bryant, Thorwaldsen, Major-Gen oral Stark, Rev. Dr. William B. Sprague, and many others. S. I. Prime, Life (New York, 1875) ; Tucker- man. MORTEMART-BOISSE, ENGUER- RAND DE, Baron, born in Paris in 1817. Landscape and animal painter, pupil of Al- fred and Tony Johannot. Medal, 3d class, 1876. Works: Duck Shooting, Poacher lying in Wait (1870) ; Mills of Monte Carlo (1874) ; Alpine Torrent near Nice (1876) ; Deep Road in Normandy, Deer in the Lair (1877); Oil Mills near Nice (1878); Oaks of Val-Erable in Forest of Lyons (1879). MORTIMER, JOHN HAMILTON, born at Eastbourne, Sussex, in 1741, died in Lon- don, Feb. 4, 1779. History painter, pupil of Thomas Hudson, and St. Martin's Lane Academy ; also said to have had instruction