From the Collection: Pocahontas

Pocahontas’s only known portrait was created in England, during the last few months of her life, The only surviving record of the sitting is an engraving by Simon van de Passe, This engraving has been the model for many of Pocahontas’s later portraits, including a painting by an unknown artist currently hanging in the National Portrait Gallery,

Simon Van de Passe Character Analysis in Pocahontas and

Simon Van de Passe, A Dutch-German engraver of some renown who was commissioned to sketch Pocahontas for an engraving, The portrait was used to create a collectible piece of memorabilia—essentially propaganda and recruiting material for the Virginia Company, Townsend alleges that Van de Passe worked with Pocahontas to create a portrait of

Life Portrait of Pocahontas

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,She appears stiff in Jacobean court attire, but the costume probably hid tattooing and provided the chaste image wanted by the Virginia Company, which sponsored her

The Assimilated Pocahontas: Simon van de Passe’s “Matoaka

[1] Simon van de Passe‘s engraving “Matoaka als Rebecca,” the very first entry in the Pocahontas Archive image gallery and the only image of Pocahontas done from “life,” is the best place to begin an exploration of the many visual representations of Pocahontas in the archive, In June of 1616 Virginia Governor Thomas Dale took John Rolfe and Pocahontas, now officially Rebecca Rolfe, back to

More on the Simon van de Passe Engraving

The Simon van de Passe engraving of 1616, For a general introduction to this image and its context with other portraits of Pocahontas, see the main Portraits page, This page will cover certain aspects of the portrait in more detail, namely the inscription, the ostrich feather fan, the beaver hat, the collar, and the artist’s skill or lack thereof in depicting a Powhatan Indian,

Pocahontas – Encyclopedia Virginia

Simon van de Passe, who made the engraving, was a Dutch artist working in London when Pocahontas arrived in England with her husband, John Rolfe, While in London, Pocahontas was lodged and clothed at the expense of the Virginia Company of London, the joint-stock corporation dedicated to the settlement of Virginia, This engraving was made as part of a fundraising effort by the company, The

Pocahontas, c, 1608-1616

The best evidence we have of how Pocahontas wanted to present herself is the portrait created by Simon Van de Passe in 1616, Van de Passe sketched her from life while she was visiting London that year, and then used his sketch to create an engraving to be sold as a souvenir of her visit, It seems likely that she had a say in how he chose to present her, The way her name appears in the

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POCAHONTAS 1616, Simon van de Passe This engraving is the only known portrait of Pocahontas rendered from life, During her stay in England, Dutch engraver …

The Portrait Gallery: Pocahontas

This 1616 engraving, by Simon van de Passe, on which the Booton Hall portrait is based was published in John Smith’s General History of Virginia, it is itself based on a sketch made in an actual sitting by the young artist made while Pocahontas was in England in 1616, She died, in England, in 1617, The engraving is the only surviving portrait

Portraits

The Simon van de Passe engraving The 1616 image at right is the only representation of Pocahontas made in her lifetime, It is believed that Simon van de Passe 1595-1647, the Dutch engraver, sketched her likeness in an actual sitting, then created the engraving for the Virginia Company to use in their publicity campaign,

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Pocahontas

Passe, Simon Van De, “Pocahontas,” Smithsonian Institute, National Portrait Gallery, 1616, 3,This is a portrait of Pocahontas during her travel to London, Her name was changed to Rebecca Rolfe when she was baptized and became the wife of John Rolfe, The artist dated only the year, 1616, The original painting is created by an unknown artist and was later engraved, However, this piece was

The True Story of Pocahontas Shown in Art History

Simon van de Passe, Pocahontas, engraving, 1616, Virginia Historical Society, Virginia Museum of History & Culture, Richmond, VA, USA, Wikimedia Commons, Detail, If you ask any kid in America who Elizabeth Candy Stanton was, you’ll probably get a silent stare, Mention Pocahontas and the majority will light up their faces remembering the Native American princess who saved an …

Pocahontas

Simon van de Passe, 1595 – 1647 Sitter Pocahontas, c, 1595 – Mar 1617 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, After John Smith and other representatives of the Virginia Company of London established a settlement at Jamestown, she …