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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 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...
30 de abr. de 2012 · Yet White’s 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.
- Benjamin Breen
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 de abr. de 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
24 de abr. de 2012 · In 1585 the Englishman John White, governor of one of the very first North American colonies, made a series of exquisite watercolour sketches of the native Algonkin people alongside whom the settlers would try to live.
2 de abr. de 2014 · Famous British People. 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...
