Career
He has been described as one of the "great entomological book illustrators of the 18th century". Nothing is known of Albin"s early life, though he may have been German-born. He 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 (northern bald ibis) from a stuffed specimen, being probably the last description of this bird made while the species was still extant in Europe.
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