John James Audubon, the famous 19th-century wildlife artist, began drawing birds as a hobby.
While living in Kentucky, Audubon’s day job running a dry-goods store eventually failed, and he turned to his art full time.
Striking out into the wilderness of early America, he sought to depict and record the various species he encountered for both artistic and scientific purposes.
Because of this, Audubon incorporated a great degree of verisimilitude (see definition and hear pronunciation below) into his work, recording specific details in the life-size portraits he created of wild birds.
His most famous work, Birds of America, which includes 435 carefully drawn prints of birds, was a huge success in its time and remains a standard by which modern bird artists are judged.
Cool word vocabulary question of the day: Can you think of any other artworks that have a large degree of verisimilitude?
Verisimilitude: The appearance of being true or real.
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