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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. © The Trustees of...
30 de abr. de 2012 · 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. ‘The Flyer’, a Secotan Indian holy man or “conjuror” (as the British often called them) painted by John White in 1585.
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.
15 de abr. de 2024 · c. 1593, Kylemore, County Galway, Ireland. 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.).
24 de abr. de 2012 · Painting the New World. By Benjamin Breen. 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. Benjamin Breen explores the significance of the sketches and their link ...
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 ...
2 de abr. de 2014 · Updated: May 13, 2020. (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...
