Morse, an inventor and artist, painted this portrait of himself

CREDIT: Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, artist. "Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Head and Shoulders Self-Portrait." Photograph of an original painting, copyright between 1900 and 1912. Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920, American Memory collections, Library of Congress.