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1852
Thomas Sully's portrait of Pocahontas
Thomas Sully, a Philadelphia portraitist, depicts Pocahontas at what romantic Virginians of the nineteenth century construed as her best moment -- after her absorption into English culture and before the fateful trip to England where, in 1617, she became sick and died. Sully's mountainous landscape is as much a fantasy as is his image of her. |