Albert Babb Insley

Albert Babb Insley
Albert Babb Insley

Albert Babb Insley

American painter, 1842–1937
BiographyInsley spent his early years in Jersey City, New Jersey. He was an apprentice to his father Henry Earle Insley, one of America's pioneer photographers, and a drafting student of an architect uncle; he was otherwise self-taught. In the 1860s, he began his long career, becoming known for his paintings of New York City and its surrounding areas, as well as of the New England states.
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