Smithsonian American Art Museum
Ee-mat-lá-, King Phillip, Second Chief
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1838
George Catlin painted Seminole chief King Phillip at Fort Moultrie, near Charleston, South Carolina, in January 1838. Catlin described him as a “very aged chief, who has been a man of great notoriety and distinction in his time.” (Catlin, Letters and Notes, vol. 2, no. 57, 1841; reprint 1973)
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