John Gadsby Chapman, The Baptism of Pocahontas (1839)
The Baptism of Pocahontas
John Gadsby Chapman
The following painting, commissioned by the U.S. Congress in 1839, was hung in the U.S. Capitol rotunda among paintings of other American heroes.
John Gadsby Chapman, The Baptism of Pocahontas, 1839, oil on canvas, 12’ × 18’, U.S. capitol Rotunda, Washington, D.C.
Architect of the Capitol