Historic portrait of the real Pocahontas in London, age 21, dressed as the Christian lady she had become. She died within months. This portrait hangs in the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian, in Washington, D.C.. This painting is a later copy of an engraving made during her London visit of 1616. It flatters and Europeanizes her more than does the original engraving, which failed to.. The only life portrait of Pocahontas (1595-1617) and the only credible image of her, was engraved by Simon Van de Passe in 1616 while she was in England, and was published in John Smith's Generall Historie of Virginia in 1624.
Camilla Townsend, in the Smithsonian Channel's 2017 Pocahontas: Beyond the Myth "Simon van de Passe, an artist at the time, was asked by the Virginia Company to sketch her and then make an engraving for a brochure." Narrator: "It's the only picture of her made from life." Townsend: "It is noteworthy that he did not at that time attempt to make her look like your average white English girl or.. Pocahontas (US: / ˌpoʊkəˈhɒntəs /, UK: / ˌpɒk -/; born Amonute, [1] also known as Matoaka and Rebecca Rolfe; c. 1596 - March 1617) was a Native American woman belonging to the Powhatan people, notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. She was the daughter of Wahunsenacawh, the Mamanatowick (leader) [2] of a network of tributary tribes in the.