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Moses Williams (artist)
1777–1825
United States
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Biography
Moses Williams (c. 1777 – c. 1830) was a formerly enslaved African American visual artist who made tens of thousands of silhouettes for visitors to Peale's Philadelphia Museum. He was associated with Philadelphia-based artist Charles Willson Peale.
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