Landscape painter, Horace Wolcott Robbins Jr., depicted mountain and lake scenery of the Adirondacks in New York and also in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. His favorite medium was watercolor, although he also painted in oils. Close painting associates were William Hart, Frederick Church and Worthington Whittredge.

Robbins was born in Mobile, Alabama, went to Baltimore with his family at the age of six, and later studied at Newton University in Baltimore. He moved to New York City after college, studied under James M. Hart in 1859, and then opened his own studio in 1860.

In 1864, he accompanied Frederick E. Church to the West Indies, Jamaica, and Europe. He studied in England, Paris, and Switze...