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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;necollectors, post: 1742662, member: 12723&quot;]Audubon sometimes used his drawing talent to trade for goods or sell small works to raise cash. He made charcoal portraits on demand at $5 each and gave drawing lessons.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_James_Audubon#cite_note-52" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_James_Audubon#cite_note-52" rel="nofollow">[52]</a> In 1823 Audubon took lessons in oil painting technique from John Steen, a teacher of American landscape, and history painter <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cole" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cole" rel="nofollow">Thomas Cole</a>. Though he did not use oils much for his bird work, <u><b>Audubon earned good money painting oil portraits for patrons along the Mississippi.</b></u> (Audubon&#039;s account reveals that he learned oil painting in December 1822 from Jacob Stein, an itinerant portrait artist. After they had enjoyed all the portrait patronage to be expected in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natchez,_Mississippi" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natchez,_Mississippi" rel="nofollow">Natchez, Mississippi</a>, during January–March 1823, they resolved to travel together as perambulating portrait-artists.)<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_James_Audubon#cite_note-Punke,_p._21-53" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_James_Audubon#cite_note-Punke,_p._21-53" rel="nofollow">[53]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_James_Audubon#cite_note-Arthur,_pp._256-7-54" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_James_Audubon#cite_note-Arthur,_pp._256-7-54" rel="nofollow">[54]</a> During this period (1822–1823), Audubon also worked as an instructor at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_College_(Mississippi)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_College_(Mississippi)" rel="nofollow">Jefferson College</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_Mississippi" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_Mississippi" rel="nofollow">Washington, Mississippi</a>. </p><p><br /></p><p>COULD IT BE??????? It is about the right age...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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