POCAHONTAS IN ENGLAND
Shortly 52after Pocahontas and her husband, John Rolfe, arrived in England in 1616, she posed for this portrait dressed in English clothing. The portrait captures the dual novelty of England for Pocahontas and of Pocahontas for the English. The mutability of Pocahontas’s identity is displayed in the identification of her as “Matoaks” or “Rebecka.” National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution/Art Resource, NY.