John James Audubon was an American artist and naturalist best known for his detailed paintings of North American birds. Audubon’s color-plate book The Birds of America (1827–1839), is widely acclaimed ...

Or a fine artist? Few figures in the world of science or fine art knew quite how to peg John James Audubon. There was no ...

In the early-to-mid 19th century, John James Audubon — a French ... A self-taught naturalist and ornithologist, Audubon was also a self-taught artist, and his detailed drawings of hundreds ...