<a href=" https://findartvalue.com/artist/mathew-b-brady">Mathew Brady</a>, American, 1823 - 1896 Mathew B. Brady was born in Lake George, New York, where he received instruction in art from itinerant painter William Page. He is said to have been introduced to daguerreotyping by Samuel F. B. Morse, the American portraitist and inventor, who was a friend of Page and an early advocate of photograph