This engraving was created in England for the Bazilioologia: A Booke of Kings (1618), a collection of British monarchs and notables, and depicts Pocahontas as an affluent Englishwoman. Eager to publicize Pocahontas’s apparent assimilation as a means of attracting investors, the Virginia Company transported her to England, where she arrived in June 1616. While in captivity, Pocahontas was converted to Christianity, took the baptismal name Rebecca, and married the tobacco farmer John Rolfe. In 1613, however, the colonists kidnapped and ransomed her for corn, guns, and prisoners. ![]() After John Smith and other representatives of the Virginia Company of London established a settlement at Jamestown, she sometimes served as an intermediary. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, 1942 Restrictions & Rights CC0 Object number NPG.65.61 Exhibition Label Pocahontas (also known as Matoaka) grew up in coastal Virginia among a confederacy of Algonquian-speaking Powhatan people overseen by her father, the paramount chief. ![]() 1595 - Mar 1617 Date after 1616 Type Painting Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions Stretcher: 77.5 x 64.8 x 2.5cm (30 1/2 x 25 1/2 x 1") Frame: 92.7 x 80 x 6.4cm (36 1/2 x 31 1/2 x 2 1/2") Credit Line National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution transfer from the National Gallery of Art gift of the A.W. ![]() Artist Unidentified Artist Copy after Simon van de Passe, 1595 - 1647 Sitter Pocahontas, c.
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