Samuel Morse’s Moving Portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette
Wall Street Journal
Begun during Lafayette’s American farewell tour, the artist and inventor’s 1826 painting makes no attempt to hide the age of the Revolutionary War hero, depicting him in noble detail against a rich symbolic backdrop.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/samuel-morses-moving-portrait-of-the-marquis-de-lafayette-cf9e1323