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Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues
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Rene de Laudonniere and the Indian Chief Athore Visit Ribaut's Column
Painting ID:: 31968
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Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues
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French painter, illustrator and explorer.
c.1533 -1588
French painter, illustrator and explorer, also active in Florida and London. In April 1564 he sailed with Ren? de Laudonni?re as artist of the Huguenot expedition to Florida. In September 1565 the Spaniards overran the colony, but he escaped and returned to France. By c. 1580 he had settled in Blackfriars, London, 'for religion' and received letters of denization on 12 May 1581. He later came into contact with Sir Walter Ralegh and his colonizing circle and with John White, the artist of the first English colony of Virginia, with whom he exchanged ideas and perhaps collaborated. Ralegh commissioned him to illustrate the Florida enterprise, and Le Moyne produced an account Brevis narratio eorum quae in Florida |
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Rene de Laudonniere and the Indian Chief Athore Visit Ribaut's Column |
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The New York Public Library.
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| Study for Landscape Composition | Return from the Harvest (mk26) | Motherhood | |
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