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). Year 1742 ( MDCCXLII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Natural history is the Scientific research of Plants or Animals leaning more towards the Observational than Experimental methods Watercolor ( US) or Watercolour ( UK) (and "aquarelle" in French is a Painting method For the vector -based drawing program by Adobe Systems, see Adobe Illustrator.
Nothing is known of his early life, though he may have been German-born and claimed to have been in Jamaica in 1701. Jamaica (ˈdʒəˈmeɪkə} is an Island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length and as much as in width situated in the Caribbean Sea. In 1708 he is known to have been married and living in Piccadilly, London. Piccadilly is a major London street running from Hyde Park Corner in the west to Piccadilly Circus in the east London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom.
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. Joseph Dandridge (January 1665 Winslow Buckinghamshire - 23 December 1747 London) was an English silk-pattern designer of Huguenot
References
- Peter Osborne, "Albin, Eleazar (d. 1742?)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 23 July 2007
External links
- A Natural History of English Insects Digitised at GDZ Göttingen.
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