M0008537: Portrait of Pocahontas (c.1595-1617)

Oil painting of Pocahontas (c.1595-1617), born Matoaka and known as Amonute and Rebecca. It is a copy of a painting hung in Booton Hall, the home of her husband’s family, the Rolfes. Sir Henry Wellcome commissioned the copy and later presented it to the United States Senate. It is now held by the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institute. Related images: M0008543.

25 March 1942

1 photograph glass plate negative; 16.5 x 21.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: WA/HSW/PE/A.5

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.