biografía de Victor Gifford AUDUBON (1809-1860)

Lugar de nacimiento: Louisville, KY

Lugar de defunción: NYC

Direcciones: NYC, from 1840; New Orleans, active 1845-46, 1853?

Profesión: Wildlife and landscape painter, miniaturist

Estudios: John James Audubon

Exposiciones: Royal Academy, London; NAD, 1862; Apollo Association; American Art-Union; Carolina Art Assoc. (a miniature of his father was shown, 1936)

Asociaciones: N.A.

Comentarios: Older son of John James Audubon. He studied painting under his father, but for a number of years worked as a clerk in a commercial house in Louisville. In 1832, however, he went to England to arrange for the publication of his father's Birds of America. While in England he exhibited a number of times at the Royal Academy, though his chief activity then and later was as secretary and agent for his father. Returning to America in 1839, Victor married Mary Eliza Bachman, sister of John Woodhouse Audubon's first wife, and settled in NYC in 1840, where he worked with his father and brother. After their father's death in 1851, the two brothers continued to collaborate on new editions of his works on American birds and quadrupeds, but Victor died after a long illness.

Fuentes: G&W; Herrick, Audubon the Naturalist; obituary by a friend" in Crayon, VII 1860, 269; Graves, Dictionary; Cowdrey, NAD; Cowdrey, AA & AAU; 8 Census (1860), N.Y., XLIX, 1052. More recently, see Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists,18-19. "