Eleazar Albin | A black-backed kingfisher, watercolour drawing

Eleazar Albin (fl.1690–c.1742)

A black-backed kingfisher

Watercolour on paper; captioned lower left: The Lesser Bengall Kingfisher; signed lower right: Eleazar Albin Del, 530 x 370mm., window mounted

Eleazar Albin (fl.1690–c.1742) was an English natural historian and watercolourist who claimed to have visited Jamaica in 1701. His Natural History of Birds had coloured engravings by him and his daughter Elizabeth.