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Phillis Wheatley, as illustrated by Scipio Moorhead in the frontispiece to her book
Poems on Various Subjects.
Scipio Moorhead (active c. 1773) was an enslaved African American artist who lived in Boston. His only surviving work is a portrait of the African American poet, Phillis Wheatley. Moorhead is the main focus of Phillis Wheatley's "To S. M. a young African Painter, on seeing his Works." Published in Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, 1773.
