Installed in the Governor's Room and throughout the building, the City Hall Portrait Collection consists of more than 100 paintings by some of the leading late-18th to mid-19th-century American artists and exemplifies the evolution in style of early American portraiture. Highlights include Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry (1816) by John Wesley Jarvis; George Washington (1790) by John Trumbull, which was completed before City Hall was built; and the marquis de Lafayette (1826) by Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of Morse code.