John Woodhouse Audubon (30 November 1812 to 21 February 1862) born in Henderson, Kentucky was the younger son of the famous ornithologist and painter, John James Audubon. Like his father, he was mainly a painter of wildlife, but also did some portraits and genre scenes of the westward migration .

His family was in London. John and his brother, Victor Gifford Audubon (1809-1860) studied painting tougher and made copies of works. The year 1837 saw collecting expeditions in Florida and Texas.

Over the next few years, he created half the illustrations used for The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America and managed the printing process. A folio size edition of The Birds of America began production in 1860, but never came to full fruition because of the Civil War. After 1839, he lived in New York City, in a house next to his father's. Throughout the 1840s and 1850s, he exhibited animal paintings and portraits at the Apollo Association, the American Art Union and the National Academy of Design.

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