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39. Selected image: page 37. Source: Sully, Robert Matthew. "Pocahontas." c. 1850. (William M. S. Rasmussen and Robert S. Tilton, Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend. Richmond: Virginia Historical Society, 1994. 37.) This is the second of three different portraits by Robert Matthew Sully (the "younger" Sully, nephew of Thomas) around the same time in the early 1850s (see the above entry for the first) and, according to Abrams 1994, is a revision of the first. Rasmussen and Tilton 1994 do not show the first painting and associate Robert Matthew Sully's "forest girl" goal with this one. See 1852 for the third painting. (This painting is owned by the Virginia Historical Society.)
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