John Audubon
I wanted to learn more about John J Audubon, because when I read about how he would hunt different types of birds and shoot them just to be able to paint them the way he wanted to see them. John J Audubon, in order to make his paintings look "life like", would shoot the birds. He would also stuff them and wire them to depict a real bird in its natural environment. Around the age of nine, he developed a love of birds, and sketching them. He painted whatever interested him. Audubon enjoyed looking for birds in western France until he was eleven years old.
Audubon (17851851) was born in Les Cayes, Santo Domingo, which is present day Haiti. He was the illegitimate son of Jean Audubon, a French sea captain, and Jeanne Rabin, a chambermaid who died in a slave uprising after his birth. His father remarried to Anne Moynet, Audubon's new stepmother. Audubon's father signed him up for service as a cabin boy in the French navy, because he believed that this would give his son some......
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