[Portrait of a Young Man], 1840, Daguerreotype, Image: 5 x 4.2 cm (1 15/16 x 1 5/8 in.), oval, Photographs, Samuel F. B. Morse (American, Charlestown, Massachusetts 1791–1872 New York), Samuel F. B. Morse met Louis Daguerre, the French inventor of photography, in Paris in the spring of 1839. Morse was the first American to see a daguerreotype and among the earliest artists in the United States to experiment with the new medium
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