John White (surveyor)

John White (c.1540 – c.1606) , flourishing 1585-1590, the Virginian pioneer and  English colonist in America, sailed with Richard Grenville in 1585, and returned with Sir Francis Drake in 1586. White was sent by Sir Walter Raleigh as Sir Richard Grenville's artist-illustrator on his first voyage to the New World (1585-6). During this journey he made numerous famous sketches of the landscape and native peoples they encountered (including the one at right). These works are significant as they pre-date the first body of "discovery voyage art" created in the late eighteenth century by the artists who sailed with Captain James Cook.
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