Portrait of Phillis Wheatley

Portrait of Phillis Wheatley
Artist	Scipio Moorhead?
Year	1773

Portrait of Phillis Wheatley is a lost painting used as the frontispiece for poet Phillis Wheatley's poetry collection Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, first published in 1773. Wheatley was the United States' first professional African American woman poet and the first African-American woman whose writings were published. She is also the third woman in the United States, regardless of ethnicity, to have her written work published. Copies of the engraving reside in the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution,^[1] the Library of Congress,^[2] the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library of the Yale University Library,^[3] and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.^[4]