biographie de John Woodhouse AUDUBON (1812-1868)

Birth place: Henderson, KY

Death place: NYC area

Addresses: Mainly NYC, from 1839; also New Orleans, 1837, 1845, 1853?

Profession: Portrait and wild-life painter

Studied: with John James Audubon

Exhibited: Apollo Association; American Art-Union; NAD

Member: ANA

Work: South-West Museum, Los Angeles; Shelburne (VT) Mus.

Comments: Younger son of John James Audubon. With his older brother, Victor Gifford Audubon, he was trained by his father to assist in the latter's work on American birds and mammals. As early as 1833 he accompanied his father on a trip to Labrador and in 1834 to England, where he remained until 1836. On his return to America he married Maria, the eldest daughter of the Charleston naturalist, Dr. John Bachman. From 1839 John W. Audubon made his home in NYC. Continuing to help his father, he made trips to Texas (1845-46) and to England (1846-47). In 1849 he joined a gold-rush expedition to California, but returned to NYC the following year. For the rest of his life he worked mainly in New York, painting nearly half the plates for Quadrupeds of America and later reducing all the pictures for the smaller edition of both the Birds and the Quadrupeds.

Sources: G&W; Herrick, Audubon the Naturalist; Cowdrey, AA & AAU; Cowdrey, NAD; Am. Inst. Cat., 1851; Audubon, Western Journals; 8 Census (1860), N.Y., XLIX, 1052; NYHS Quarterly (April 1946), 71. More recently, see Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists,18; Peggy and Harold Samuels, 13; Muller, Paintings and Drawings at the Shelburne Museum,25 (w/repro.)

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