Roswell Morse Shurtleff (June 14, 1838 âÂÂ1915) was an American painter and illustrator. Born in Rindge, New Hampshire, he graduated from Dartmouth College and was imprisoned by the Confederate States Army for eight months during the American Civil War of 1861âÂÂ1865. In the postbellum years, he was an illustrator for magazines and newspapers, and an animalier and landscape painter. His work is in the collections of the Harvard Art Museums, the National Gallery of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.