An Indian Chief - c.1585 by John White John White (c.1540 - c.1618) "Gentleman of London" and probable doctor, was sent by Sir Richard Grenville as Sir Walter Raleigh's surveyor-general on his first voyage to the New World (1585-6). During this journey he made numerous sketches of the landscape and people 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. ㏕opFoto