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ID: 500124270 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500124270			Record Type: Person

White, John (English watercolorist and draftsman, ca. 1540-ca. 1593-1606, active in America)

Note: John White was the artist of the 1585 expedition sent to Roanoke Island by Sir Walter Raleigh to investigate the possibility of establishing a colony. He completed about 60 watercolors and drawings of the flora, fauna, and the native inhabitants, and made maps of the Virginia coast before he returned to England with Sir Francis Drake in 1586. Sir Walter Raleigh named White governor of the colony and he sailed back to Virginia with his family in 1587. Later that year he returned to England for supplies and was prevented from returning until 1590 because of the Armada and England's war with Spain. When he did return, the settlers and "the lost colony" had disappeared, including his granddaughter, Virginia Dare, the first English child born in America. Twenty-three of White's Virginia watercolors were engraved by Theodore De Bry as illustrations for his 1590 book on the new world. English colonist in Virginia and the Carolinas; painter, cartographer, illustrator, ethnographer. SAF gives the less inclusive dates.

Names:
	White, John (preferred,V,index)
	John White (V,display)
	White, John, I (V)
	White, John I (V)
	John I White (V)

Nationalities:
	British (modern) (preferred)
	English

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	painter
	watercolorist
	draftsman
	explorer
	public officer / government official

Gender: male


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: England (United Kingdom) (country) Died: Ireland (Europe) (nation)

Events:

active:

United States (North and Central America) (nation)

List/Hierarchical Position:

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Persons, Artists

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White, John (I)

Biographies:

(English watercolorist and draftsman, ca. 1540-ca. 1593-1606, active in America) ..... [VP Preferred]
(English painter, explorer, colonial official, act. 1585-1593) ..... [BHA]
(British, fl. 1585-1593) ..... [GRLPA]
(British artist, op. 1585-1593) ..... [WCP]
(British artist, circa 1540-1606) ..... [WCI]
(British artist, ca.1540-1606) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(English painter, flourished 1577-1593) ..... [AVERY]
(English painter, flourished 1585-1593) ..... [AVERY]
(English watercolourist) ..... [Grove Art]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:

John I White ........	[VP, WL-Courtauld]
.........................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules

John White ........	[Grove Art, VP]
......................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules

White, John ........	[AVERY Preferred, BHA Preferred, GRLPA Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, VP Preferred, WCP Preferred]
........................	Ask Art [online] (2003) accessed 30 April 2004
........................	Avery Authority files (1963-)
........................	British Museum Catalogue of British Drawings (1960)
........................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)
........................	Mallalieu, British Watercolour Artists (1986-1990) 2, 260
........................	SIRIS [online] (2001-2004) accessed 30 April 2004
........................	Who Was Who In American Art (1999) 3, 3542

White, John, I ........	[VP]
.............................	Witt Computer Index database

White, John I ........	[WL-Courtauld Preferred]
...........................	Witt Library, Authority files


Note:
English	..........	[AVERY, VP, WL-Courtauld]
	..........	Ask Art [online] (2003) accessed 30 April 2004
	..........	DNB: Oxford National Biography [online] (2004-)
	..........	Who Was Who In American Art (1999) 3, 3542

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