William Holbrook Beard was born in Painesville, Ohio, on April 13, 1824 and began his artistic career as a traveling portrait painter. He traveled throughout Europe to Germany, Switzerland and Italy with other famous artists and learned all aspects of his art. After a short time in Buffalo, New York, he moved to hone his talent and become a respected portrait painter. He exhibited regularly in major US cities, Chicago, San Francisco, Montreal, Cincinnati and Boston, but was very successful with his works exhibited at the National Design Academy in New York, where his most loyal clients requested his work. finest works of art and of which he was a member. “In 1866 he traveled west by train, and in Colorado his companion was Bayard Taylor, a writer and lecturer. He wrote to his wife, the daughter of the New York portrait painter Thomas le Clear, that he thought the landscape was monotonous, was disappointed that he had not seen more buffalo, and was dissatisfied with the wild life and hardships of life. As a result, he turned increasingly to his imagination, retaining an interest in wildlife but not in studying its habits and environment firsthand. Many of his paintings showed animals, particularly bears, physically realistic but atypical in their behavior." ("William Holbrook Beard (1823-1900)") These early life and travel experiences had a profound effect on life and choice of the future subject studied and painted. He felt that, for some strange reason, animals did not respond the way humans do, so placing them in situations where they could translate human drama and personal experiences into art became his most masterful talent during the his life. popular animal pai...... center of the paper ......and animals from some schools of thought and that all animals also have some human qualities and characteristics. Works cited1), ed old men - William Holbrook Beard." Currier Museum of Art. Np, 2012. Web. 7 June 2012. .("Currier Museum of Art") in text citation2), ed. "Beard of William Holbrook." National Museum of Art Wildlife of the United States. nd Web. 7 June 2012. .("National Museum of Wildlife Art of the United States") in text citation 3) ed. "I wish Tos." Beard of William Holbrook (1823-1900) . Np, 2012. Web. 7 June 2012. .("William Holbrook Beard (1823-1900)") in text citation