Detail of Susan Walker Morse (The Muse) At the time he painted this portrait, Morse held the unpaid appointment of professor of literature of the art of design at the newly formed New York University and suffered from a near total lack of portrait commissions. He surrounded his daughter with the material wealth he could not actually give her.
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