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You’ve likely heard of Samuel F.B Morse, generally credited with the invention of the telegraph. But you might be less aware that the man who famously used his code to say “what hath God wrought?” was also an artist, in fact one of America’s best and most prolific portrait artists, one of our most gifted historical artists, and a leading figure in the development of an American school of art.
An epithet is a byname, a characterizing word or phrase that accompanies or occurs in place of the name of a person or thing. Historically, some have been unfortunate- just ask Alfonso the Slobberer or Eystein Foul-Fart.
History is all around us, and it is amazing to me how it can become lost in plain sight. For example, language is chocked full of forgotten history.
