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 the Royal Academy, where he 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 studentship, which enabled him to spend some time in France and Italy. Elected an A.R.A. in 1877. Medal, 2d class, Antwerp Exhibition, 1885. Works: Voices from the Sea, Widow's Harvest (1860); Captives' Return (1861); Where they crucified Him (1864); Jesù Salvator, Battle Scar (1865); Riven Shield (1866); Drift Wreck from the Armada (1867); Ambuscade (1869); Summit of Calvary (1871); Highland Pastoral (1872); Whereon he Died (1873); End of the Journey (1874); The Mowers (1875); Sailor's Wedding (1876); 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, Quite Ready, Sweethearts and Wives (1884); The First Prince of Wales (1885).—Art Journal (1872), 161; (1878), iii. 212.

MORSE, SAMUEL FINLEY BREESE, born in Charlestown, 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 accompanied 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 model of a Dying Hercules. He returned to the United States in 1815, and after painting in Boston, and Charleston, S. C., removed 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 himself 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. × 11 ft., 1822), Daniel Huntington, New York; Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman (1826); Una and the Dwarf, Cazenovia Lake, Trenton Falls (1828); Gallery of the Louvre (1832-33), George Clark, Otsego; Amalfi, The Wetterhorn and Falls of the Reichenbach, Brigand Alarmed, Pifferari (1833); Helicon and Aganippe, Sunset View of St. Peter's (1836); Portraits of President Monroe, Chancellor Kent, DeWitt Clinton, Lafayette, Fitz-Greene Halleck, William Cullen Bryant, Thorwaldsen, Major-General Stark, Rev. Dr. William B. Sprague, and many others.—S. I. Prime, Life (New York, 1875); Tuckerman.

MORTEMART-BOISSE, ENGUERRAND DE, Baron, born in Paris in 1817. Landscape and animal painter, pupil of Alfred 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 London, Feb. 4, 1779. History painter, pupil of Thomas Hudson, and St. Martin's Lane Academy; also said to have had instruction