John White was an English colonial governor, explorer, artist, and cartographer. White was among those who sailed with Richard Grenville in the first attempt to colonise Roanoke Island in 1585, acting
The return of Governor White to the "Lost Colony" as imagined by artists in 1876
Watercolour by John White of Roanoke Indians
White's patron, Sir Walter Raleigh
Baptism of Virginia Dare, wood-engraving, 1880
Eleanor Dare
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Eleanor Dare of Westminster, London, England, was a member of the English Roanoke Colony in North America and the daughter of John White, the colony's governor. While little is known about her life, m
John White (colonist and artist)
…of St Martin, Ludgate in London in the late 1560s. In 1566, he married Tomasyn Cooper; with whom he had a son, Thomas, who died young, and a daughter, Eleanor. Little is known of White's training as an artist but it is possible that he apprenticed as an illustrator under a London master. In the late sixteenth…
St Bride's Church, Fleet Street, London, where Eleanor Dare was married.
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