作品：Susan Walker Morse (The Muse)
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艺术家的长女苏珊·沃克·莫尔斯(Susan Walker Morse，1819-1885)的全身肖像是在摩尔斯电报发明的关键时期(约1835-1837年)绘制的。这幅画显示，这个女孩大约17岁，坐在那里，膝盖上放着一本素描本，手里拿着一支铅笔，抬起眼睛沉思。虽然传统上被描述为缪斯，但这个人物更有可能是绘画或设计艺术的人格化。莫尔斯充分利用了他在欧洲接受的训练，借鉴了鲁本斯和凡尔纳人的作品，这是他雄心勃勃地告别了自己的艺术家生涯。由于缺乏经济上的成功，他放弃了绘画，转而从事科学和发明工作。这幅画于1837年首次在美国国家设计学院展出，在那里受到了热烈的赞誉。苏珊于1839年嫁给了爱德华·林德(Edward Lind)，并搬到了他在波多黎各的糖料种植园，经常回到纽约与父亲度过更长一段时间。苏珊六岁时，父亲就成了鳏夫。她渐渐对自己在种植园的婚姻生活不满意了。林德于1882年去世。1885年，苏珊打算永久返回纽约，但不幸在海上迷路了。
The full-length portrait of Susan Walker Morse (1819–1885), the eldest daughter of the artist, was painted during the crucial years of the invention of Morse's telegraph (ca. 1835–37). The painting shows the girl at the age of roughly seventeen, sitting with a sketchbook on her lap and a pencil in hand with her eyes raised in contemplation. Although traditionally described as a Muse, the figure is more likely a personification of the art of drawing or design. Morse drew from the full extent of his European training, taking from the works of Rubens and Veronese in what was to be an ambitious farewell to his career as an artist. Deterred by a lack of financial success, he abandoned painting for science and inventing. This painting was first exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1837, where it was granted enthusiastic praise. Susan married Edward Lind in 1839 and moved to his sugar plantation in Puerto Rico, often returning to New York to spend extended periods with her father, who had been left a widower when Susan was just six. She became gradually unsatisfied with her married life in the plantations. Lind died in 1882. In 1885, Susan set out to return to New York permanently but was tragically lost at sea.
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