John James Audubon (1785 – 1851) – A dominant wildlife artist John James Audubon, the popular painter and an American naturalist and ornithologist, was born in Les Cayes, Saint-Domingue, in the year 1785. This famous artist was the illegitimate son of Lieutenant Jean Audubon, a French naval officer and his mistress Jeanne Rabin. His father and his wife Anne legally adopted him... View more