Andrew Jackson Grayson (1819–1869) was an American ornithologist and artist.
Grayson was the author of Birds of the Pacific Slope (1853–69), which he considered to be a completion of John James Audubon's Birds of America.
Early life and education
Grayson was born August 20, 1819, in the northwest corner of Louisiana, on the Ouachita River, where his father had a cotton plantation. Later on, his father sent him to St. Mary's College in St. Louis, Missouri. There, they discouraged him from studying art.
He developed a talent for drawing the birds he observed in the bayous while in his teens. However, he was once punished by a schoolteacher for drawing instead of doing his lessons.