Jonathan Bradley Morse (1834-1898)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 26” x 22”
Frame Size: 34” x 20”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: $5500
Biography/Statement
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.
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