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John James Audubon
John James Audubon was a French-American artist, entrepreneur, naturalist, explorer, and ornithologist. His combined interests in painting and ornithology turned into a plan to make a complete pictorial record of all the bird species of North America. He was notable for his extensive studies of American birds and for his detailed illustrations, which were engraved in Scotland and England for a lar…
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culture · French-American ornithologist (1785–1851) · botanist · ornithologist · painter · zoologist · scientific illustrator · writer · photographer · draftsperson · printmaker · naturalist · also John James Audubon, John James Laforest Audubon, John James. Audubon, John James Audobon, Jean-Jacques Fougère, Jean-Jacques Audubon
Born 26 April 1785 · Died 27 January 1851 · Q182882
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2026· 2 entries
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: John James Audubon visited Arkansas, but never got to Spa City’s environs
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2025· 2 entries
insider.si.edu: John James Audubon : the making of an American / Richard Rhodes
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Observer: John James Audubon
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2020· 1 entry
Argues that this plate was a mixture of plagiarism and ornithological fraud
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2018· 1 entry
In Boston, Massachusetts by Chorus pro Musica
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2011· 1 entry
Google celebrated his 226th birthday by displaying a special Google Doodle on its global homepage
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2010· 1 entry
A copy of The Birds of America was sold at a Sotheby's auction for $11
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2004· 1 entry
Smithsonian Magazine: John James Audubon: America’s Rare Bird
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1985· 1 entry
The National Gallery of Art 20C History Project produced a documentary, "John James Audubon: The Birds of America", now widely available online
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1940· 1 entry
By the US Post Office with a 1 cent Famous Americans Series postage stamp; the stamp is green
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1905· 1 entry
The National Audubon Society was incorporated and named in his honor
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1851· 1 entry
Died 1851-01-27.
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1848· 1 entry
Manifested signs of senility or possibly dementia from what is now called Alzheimer's disease, his "noble mind in ruins"
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1841· 1 entry
Having finished the Ornithological Biographies, Audubon returned to the United States with his family
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1835· 1 entry
By critic John Neal questioning Audubon's honesty and trustworthiness
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1834· 1 entry
As part of Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth's second expedition across the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean
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1833· 1 entry
Audubon sailed north from Maine, accompanied by his son John, and five other young colleagues, to explore the ornithology of Labrador
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1830· 1 entry
And to the American Philosophical Society in 1831
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1829· 1 entry
To complete more drawings for his magnum opus
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1826· 1 entry
At age 41, Audubon took his growing collection of work to England
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1824· 1 entry
Audubon returned to Philadelphia to seek a publisher for his bird drawings
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1823· 1 entry
Audubon took lessons in oil painting technique from John Steen, a teacher of American landscape, and history painter Thomas Cole
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1821· 1 entry
Audubon and Audubon Park, both in New Jersey
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1820· 1 entry
Audubon traveled into Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida in search of ornithological specimens
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1818· 1 entry
Rafinesque visited Kentucky and the Ohio River valley to study fishes and was a guest of Audubon
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1812· 1 entry
Following Congress's' declaration of war against Britain, Audubon became an American citizen and had to give up his French citizenship
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1810· 1 entry
Audubon moved his business further west to the less competitive Henderson, Kentucky, area
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1808· 2 entries
Audubon moved to Kentucky, which was rapidly being settled
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Hurting Audubon's trading business
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1805· 1 entry
To see his father and ask permission to marry
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1803· 1 entry
His father obtained a false passport so that Jean-Jacques could go to the United States to avoid conscription in the Napoleonic Wars
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1785· 1 entry
Born 1785-04-26.
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