Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues
French painter, illustrator and explorer, also active in
Florida and London. In April 1564 he sailed with René de Laudonnière
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
... acciderunt ... auctore Iacobo le Moyne with 42 illustrations
and a map that Theodor de Bry published in Frankfurt au Main in 1591
as the second part of his Collectiones perigrinationum in Indiam
orientalem et occidentalem. In 1586 Le Moyne produced a book of
small woodcut designs, entitled La Clef des champs, pour trouver
plusieurs animaux, tant bestes qu’oyseaux, avec plusieurs fleurs et
fruitz, to serve as models for the artist and craftsman. (b Dieppe, c. 1533; d London, before 1 June
1588)... from The Grove Dictionary of Art
