Eleazar Albin
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1690 – 1742
Who was Eleazar Albin?
Eleazar Albin was an English naturalist and watercolourist illustrator who wrote and illustrated a number of books including A Natural History of English Insects, A Natural History of Birds and The Natural History of Spiders and other Curious Insects. He has been described as one of the "great entomological book illustrators of the 18th century".
Nothing is known of his early life, though he may have been German-born and claimed to have been in Jamaica in 1701. In 1708 he is known to have been married and living in Piccadilly, London. According to autobiographical details in A Natural History of English Insects, Albin taught watercolour painting before being instructed in natural history by silk weaver and naturalist Joseph Dandridge.
In his work on birds he describes the wood-crow from a stuffed especimen, being probably the last description of this bird made while the species was, probably, still extant.
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