born April 9, 1739, Kingsessing, Pa., U.S.
died July 22, 1823, Kingsessing
U.S. naturalist, botanist, and artist.
the son of Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida (1791). The book was influential among the English and French Romantics (see {{link=Romanticism">Romanticism ). Bartram was also noted for his renderings of plants and animals.