Samuel Finley Breese Morse

Mr. Henry Francis du Pont, Wilmington, Delaware
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Osborne, Pebble Beach, California (given as a wedding gift from the above)
By descent in the family of the present owner

Santa Barbara, California, Santa Barbara Museum of Fine Art, American Portraits in California Collections, April 6 - May 8, 1966, no. 30

Generally in good condition. A crack in panel at upper left, with two smaller at upper center. Under ultraviolet light: an old thick green varnish, scattered inpainting throughout, at top left background, in sitter's face, especially his left eyelid, and throughout the sitter's ascot.
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