Scipio Moorhead

Scipio Moorhead was an enslaved African-American artist who lived in Boston, Massachusetts. Moorhead is known through the contemporary African-American poet Phillis Wheatley's poem, dedicated "To S. M. a young African Painter, on seeing his Works", published in Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, 1773. Though the poem does it not mention Moorhead's full name, it is significantly Wheatley’s only surviving poem addressed to another black person, and it is also her only poem explicitly about artistic creation. Moorhead's full name was identified from period marginalia.