![]() To make Pocahontas’s English transformation complete, her skin, hair, and eye color have been significantly lightened. Pocahontas is dressed in English costume in rich shades of red, gold, and green, with white lace cuffs and high collar, a pearl earring, and holding a white and gold ostrich feather fan. This is believed to be the oldest oil portrait modeled after the van de Passe engraving. ![]() 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. The only surviving record of the sitting is an engraving by Simon van de Passe. Pocahontas’s only known portrait was created in England, during the last few months of her life. publisher: William Richardson / Engraving on paper, 1793 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ![]() ![]() Pocahontas / Unidentified artist, copy after: Simon van de Passe, 1595 – 1647.
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