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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 (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.).
Apr 2, 2014 · John White was an English artist, explorer, cartographer and governor of the settlement on Roanoke Island.
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Oct 3, 2012 · Later that year, it was decided that John White, governor of the new colony, would sail back to England in order to gather a fresh load of supplies.
Although his beautiful watercolor drawings are one of the most valuable sources of information about the Roanoke voyages and he served a governor of the 1587 colony, John White's life is almost unknown.
John White wasn't the most exacting painter that 16th-century England had to offer, or so his watercolors of the New World suggest. His diamondback terrapin has six toes instead of five; one of...
The John White Colony. Although Sir Walter Ralegh must have been disappointed when his first colony returned to England in 1586, he did not give up. Neither gold nor silver had been discovered, yet there had been some successes. In nearly a year based on Roanoke Island, only four of 108 men had died and a large area had been explored.
In 1587 John White led the third Raleigh-financed voyage to Roanoke Island; it was the first to include women and children to create a stable English colony on the Atlantic coast.
Nov 21, 2023 · John White was an artist who traveled with the first English explorers to the New World. He produced works of art that depicted the Native Americans in and around present-day Virginia and North...
