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  1. 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.

  2. Apr 15, 2024 · White executed many paintings and sketches of the lands, native peoples, flora, and fauna of the region, and 23 of his paintings were used later to illustrate Thomas Hariot’s A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia.

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  3. John White was the first Englishman to paint America in 1585, during a voyage sponsored by Sir Walter Raleigh. His watercolors show the natural and cultural diversity of the Carolina coast and the West Indies, as well as his artistic and historical significance.

  4. Apr 30, 2012 · Yet Whites illustrations stood out among those of his peers. Rather than working via woodblock printing or engraving, White produced paintings in vivid watercolors. This allowed him to achieve a level of lifelike detail which printed illustrations couldn’t hope to match.

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  5. Apr 2, 2014 · (1540-1593) Synopsis. In April 1585 John White sailed on an expedition that planted a settlement on Roanoke Island. He executed many paintings and sketches of the region. The colony was...

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  7. May 3, 2024 · SUMMARY. John White was an English artist who in 1585 accompanied a failed colonizing expedition to Roanoke Island in present-day North Carolina and who, in 1587, served as governor of a second failed expedition, which came to be known as the Lost Colony. As an artist attached to the first group of colonists, White produced watercolor portraits ...

  8. Also known as. John White. 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 ...

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