The portrait was done in 1616, the year before Pocahontas died. It is the only known image of Pocahontas painted from life rather than someone's imagination of what she might have looked like.
The real Pocahontas? The Native American daughter of Powhatan, Mataola or Pocahontas, is here shown after she converted to Christianity, married settler John Rolfe, and went to visit England.
Pocahontas - Rebecca Rolfe - 1616
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