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An example of work by Jonathan Bradley Morse
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  The following, submitted November 2004, is from James F. X. Mc Ilhinney
(updated by Penny Harter, March 10, 2007). His source is an
interview with Penny Harter*, the great-great-granddaughter of Jonathan
Morse and his artist wife, Eleanor Ecob Morse. One of Harter's
sources is a diary, January through September 1890, of Eleanor Ecob
Morse when she was in her early fifties.
Jonathan Morse was a landscape artist and a minister. He and his
wife, the artist Eleanor Ecob Morse, resided at One Clark Place in
Utica, New York, where between them they produced hundreds of paintings
on canvas and other materials. Jonathan worked primarily in oils,
and Eleanor worked in both oils and watercolors. She also painted
flowers on fine china and glass, usually on commission.
They spent their summers at Cape Ann, Gloucester, where they stayed in
an inn called The Delphine that no longer seems to be there, although
Harter’s mother remembers seeing it when she was a young woman, its
walls covered with Morse paintings. In her journal, Eleanor also
mentions an 'Amnesty's Art Store' in, Harter believes, Syracuse, where
they both displayed and sold their art.
The couple was apparently well regarded for their work in their own
time, for their works sold for upwards of 250 dollars routinely.
In old age, they moved to 116 Kingsley Avenue on Staten Island to stay
with their daughter Florence Morse Kingsley and family.
Jonathan’s primary works reflect rural landscapes and seascapes in the
Northeast, and Eleanor is best known for her many still-life paintings..
*The granddaughter Penny Harter, has a collection of paintings by Jonathan and Eleanor Morse.
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Jonathan Bradley Morse was the son of Obediah Morse and
Leonice or Lomira (her name appears different ways in different
records) Bradley. He was born in 1834 in Vermont. He was a cousin of Samuel F.B.Morse, the painter and Morse code inventor. By 1859, he
married Eleanor Ecob. Their daughter, Florence E. Morse
(1857-1941), married Rev. Charles Rawson Kingley and, as Florence Morse
Kingsley, became a prolific author. Jonathan died in 1898.
The 1860 Census lists Jonathan as a teacher, but the 1880 Census reports that he was a "landscape artist".
Sources:
Gary Maher (genealogical researcher)
Additional information courtesy of Grace E. Morean, great-granddaughter of Florence Morse Kingsley.
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