- Eleazar Albin
Eleazar Albin (known from 1708 - c.1742) was an English naturalist and watercolourist
illustrator who wrote and illustrated a number of books including "A Natural History of English Insects" (1720), "A Natural History of Birds" (1731-38) and "The Natural History of Spiders and other Curious Insects" (1736).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 inPiccadilly ,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 .References
*Peter Osborne, "Albin, Eleazar (d. 1742?)", "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/279 accessed 23 July 2007]
External links
* [http://dz1.gdz-cms.de/no_cache/en/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=286686 "A Natural History of English Insects"] Digitised at GDZ Göttingen.
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