Outer
Banks Art Gallery
John White Art Collection
John
White was an artist, cartographer, and Virginia pioneer who was born in
England in 1540. In 1585, at the age of 44 he was commissioned to travel
with an English expedition to Roanoke Island to illustrate life in the
New World. His paintings provided Europeans with some of the earliest
sights on the North American continent. White was appointed governor of
the second Roanoke colony in 1587 by Sir Walter Raleigh. As governor,
he escaped the fate of the lost colony when he returned to England in
search of supplies for the struggling colony. The colony disappeared while
he was away. After the failure of the Roanoke Island colony, White moved
to Plymouth, England. In his later years, the artist drew maps for Sir
Walter Raleigh. White died in 1606.
The Arrival of the Englishmen
in Virginia Giclee Print
White, John
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