In late April, arrives in Philadelphia to show his paintings to the scientific establishment and to find an engraver. In the fall, travels north with Victor to Shippingport, Kentucky.Īudubon leaves Victor with Lucy's relatives in Kentucky. Audubon continues to paint birds and to make money painting portraits.
Lucy finds a position as live-in governess at Beech Woods Plantation. Sons travel to Natchez to reunite with their father Lucy follows soon after. In July, Mason leaves Audubon and returns to Kentucky. Soon after, Audubon leaves his family again and travels north to Natchez with Mason to find and paint more birds and to make money drawing portraits. In February, Lucy finds a position as a live-in governess in New Orleans. In December, after being away from Audubon for fourteen months, Lucy and sons travel south and reunite with him in New Orleans. In June, they travel up the river to Oakley Plantation near Bayou Sarah, where Audubon serves as a tutor. Audubon paints birds, but his small income is made by drawing portraits in black chalk. Takes on twelve-year-old Joseph Mason as an apprentice and begins the task of painting the images for “The Birds of America.” Mason travels with Audubon on a flatboat down the Mississippi.Īudubon and Mason arrive in New Orleans in January. Works at the Western Museum in Cincinnati as a taxidermist.Īudubon decides to publish the greatest bird book ever. The mill fails miserably.Īudubon is briefly jailed for debts until he declares bankruptcy. The other two investors drop out before construction is completed. They return to Kentucky, where over the next few years Audubon engages in several different business ventures, all of which fail.Īudubon forms a partnership to build a steam grist/lumber mill. The family travels back to Philadelphia for a short time, and Audubon becomes an American citizen there.
Second son John Woodhouse Audubon is born. The Audubons move downriver to Henderson, Kentucky. The Audubons' first son, Victor Gifford, is born.Īudubon meets ornithologist Alexander Wilson. Begins in earnest to paint birds.Īudubon leaves Pennsylvania and travels to Louisville, Kentucky, with his business partner, Ferdinand Rozier, where they begin a general store.Īudubon returns to Pennsylvania and marries Lucy Bakewell, then travels with her back to Louisville. Audubon meets Lucy Green Bakewell.Īudubon returns to France for a year-long visit. John James Audubon, aged eighteen, travels to America to manage Mill Grove, a Pennsylvania farm owned by his father that is adjacent to Fatland Ford.
They eventually settle on a farm near Philadelphia called Fatland Ford. The Bakewell family emigrates from England to the United States. Audubon spends much of his time drawing and studying nature, but does poorly in school.Īudubon and his sister are legally recognized and adopted by Capt. Audubon takes his son briefly to the United States, and then home to France, where his tolerant wife accepts the boy and an illegitimate sister by yet another woman, and raises the children as her own. Rabine dies soon after the birth of her son.Ĭapt. John James Audubon born in Haiti, the illegitimate son of French sea captain Jean Audubon and a chambermaid named Jeanne Rabine, who sailed with him from France on the same boat. Steiner is an Audubon Galleries Advisory Board Member. The following timeline is an excerpt from Bill Steiner's book “Audubon Art Prints – A Collector’s Guide to Every Edition”, published in the autumn of 2003 by the University of South Carolina Press.
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