French-American ornithologist and painter (died 1851)

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 large-format color-plate (intaglio) book titled The Birds of America (1827–1838), and five volumes of accompanying text entitled Ornithological Biography (1831–1839).

Born

1785

April 26

Died

1851

Era

1780s

Country

—

About

John, in brief

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 large-format color-plate (intaglio) book titled The Birds of America (1827–1838), and five volumes of accompanying text entitled Ornithological Biography (1831–1839).

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

Life timeline

Key dates

  1. 1785 Born
  2. 1851 Died

Also on April 26

What else happened on this day, through history

See all of April 26 →

Same-day contemporaries

Also born on April 26

Carol Burnett 1933– American actress, singer, and producer Esek Hopkins 1718–1802 American commander (died 1802) Filiberto Ojeda Ríos 1933–2005 Puerto Rican-American general (died 2005) Gary Wright 1943– American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (died 2023) Hack Wilson 1900– American baseball player (died 1948) Kristen R. Ghodsee 1970– American ethnographer and academic Melania Trump 1970– Slovene-American model; 47th First Lady of the United States Michael Smith 1932–2000 English-Canadian biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2000) Paul-Émile Léger 1904–1991 Canadian cardinal (died 1991)

See everything on April 26 →

Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1785

Adam Sedgwick 1785–1873 British geologist, Anglican priest and doctoral advisor to Charles Darwin (born 1785) José Miguel Carrera 1785–1821 Chilean general and politician (died 1821)

Keep going

More to explore

John's birthday April 26 John's zodiac Taurus Browse People A–Z