This romanticized 1845 oil painting is believed to represent seventeenth-century English colonist John Rolfe and his wife, Pocahontas. Partially dressed in armor, Rolfe has one arm around his Indian bride and his other hand touching the base of a crucifix; the artist has anglicized Pocahontas's features. The parted curtain behind them reveals a distant view of the ocean and ships.

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