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7 unusual facts about John James Audubon


Antonio Jacobsen

Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen (November 2, 1850 – February 2, 1921) was a Danish-born American maritime artist known as the "Audubon of Steam Vessels".

Audubon Parkway

Named for John James Audubon, an early American naturalist, the Audubon's western terminus is the Edward T. Breathitt Pennyrile Parkway; the eastern terminus is the U.S. 60 bypass.

Jean Ferdinand Rozier

Rozier became business partners with John James Audubon in France before they came to America in Partnership.

John Holmes Jenkins

In 1971, Jenkins was instrumental in helping the FBI recover an extremely valuable portfolio of original colored engravings, John James Audubon's Birds of America, stolen from Union College in Schenectady, New York.

John Newsom

However, Newsom’s oeuvre is not only inspired by the thoughts and musings of Charles Darwin, but also by the artwork of the early French-American watercolorist John James Audubon.

Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Mill Grove, the first home in America of painter John James Audubon for which the community of Audubon, Pennsylvania is named, is maintained as a museum and wildlife sanctuary by Montgomery County.

Right and Left

Its design recalls that of Japanese art, and the composition resembles that of a colored engraving by John James Audubon.


Charley Harper

He contrasted his nature-oriented artwork with the realism of John James Audubon, drawing influence from Cubism, Minimalism, Einsteinian physics and countless other developments in Modern art and science.

Lusk's Ferry Road

In 1814, John James Audubon attempted to cross Illinois by horse, on his way to Henderson, Kentucky.

Robert O. Cornthwaite

Balancing his theater work with "bill-paying" jobs, he appeared frequently on television, including a role as naturalist John James Audubon in an episode of the Desilu Studios Production, The Adventures of Jim Bowie, starring Scott Forbes.


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