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John White (c. 1539 – c. 1593) was an English colonial governor, explorer, artist, and cartographer. White was among those who sailed with Richard Grenville in the first attempt to colonize Roanoke Island in 1585, acting as artist and mapmaker to the expedition.
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John White (died c. 1593, Kylemore, County Galway, Ireland) was a British artist, explorer, cartographer, and governor of the English settlement on Roanoke Island (now in North Carolina, U.S.). In May 1577 White sailed on the ship Aid as part of an expedition to America commanded by Martin Frobisher.
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2 apr 2014 · John White was an English artist, explorer, cartographer and governor of the settlement on Roanoke Island. Updated: May 13, 2020. (1540-1593) Synopsis. In April 1585 John...
John White wasn't the most exacting painter that 16th-century England had to offer, or so his watercolors of the New World suggest. By John White, Watercolor, c. 1585.
30 apr 2012 · In recent histories of colonial British America, it is John White the artist, rather than John White the colonial governor, who takes center stage. This is because White was a watercolor painter of extraordinary talent whose works number among the most remarkable depictions of early modern indigenous Americans ever created.
3 ott 2012 · John White's Departure and the Spanish Armada. Mystery at Roanoke. Later that year, it was decided that John White, governor of the new colony, would sail back to England in order to...
