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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.
John White (Londra, 1540 circa – Contea di Cork, 1593 circa) è stato un artista britannico, pioniere nel Nuovo Mondo. Nel 1585 fu inviato da Sir Walter Raleigh insieme ad un gruppo di inglesi nell'attuale Virginia per fondare una colonia.
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primary name:White, John. Details. individual; painter/draughtsman; British; American (USA); Male. Other dates. 1585-1593 (fl.) Biography. Watercolourist, the first British artist in America and first European to paint Native Americans (North Carolina Algonquians, about 1585-6); governor of the colony at Roanoke (1587); his voyages for Sir ...
15 apr 2024 · 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.).
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2 apr 2014 · John White was an English artist, explorer, cartographer and governor of the settlement on Roanoke Island.
30 apr 2012 · John White was a sixteenth-century English colonist and governor who painted vivid watercolors of native Americans in Virginia. His works are among the most remarkable depictions of early modern indigenous Americans ever created and influenced later artists and printmakers.
