Dr. Carol Eaton Soltis, Philadelphia Museum of Art

About Dr. Carol Eaton Soltis, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Dr. Carol Eaton Soltis is Project Associate Curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and author of The Art of the Peales in the Philadelphia Museum of Art: Adaptations and Innovations, Yale University Press (2017)

Charles Willson Peale, Portrait of Yarrow Mamout (Muhammad Yaro), 1819, oil on canvas, 61 × 50.8 cm (Philadelphia Museum of Art) — How a portrait of an African Muslim came to hang side-by-side with the founding fathers in one of America's earliest museums.

A Muslim among the founding fathers

by Dr. Carol Eaton Soltis, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Dr. Steven Zucker

Charles Willson Peale, Portrait of Yarrow Mamout (Muhammad Yaro), 1819, oil on canvas, 61 x 50.8 cm (Philadelphia Museum of Art) — How a portrait of an African Muslim came to hang side-by-side with the founding fathers in one of America's earliest museums.

An African Muslim among the founding fathers, ...

by Dr. Carol Eaton Soltis, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Dr. Steven Zucker

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