Jacques Le Moyne was the first professional artist to work in the  
territory that would become the United States.  In 1564, he 
accompanied Huguenot leader Rene de Laudonniere on an expedition 
to the Carolinas and Florida.  Using watercolors, Le Moyne depicted 
Indian life, as shown in this engraving (after one of his paintings) of 
Timucua Indians planting their fields.  Le Moyne helped establish 
Fort Carolina on the St. John's River in Florida.  A year later, the fort 
was brutally attacked by Indians, and Le Moyne was one of the few 
survivors.  He returned to France, where exhibits of his work gave 
Europeans their first look at the people of the New World.