Albert Elroy Downs (1856 - 1923) was an American artist, lithographer, and publisher. Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, Downs spent his entire life in Massachusetts. He graduated from the Bigelow School in Boston and likely trained with the American landscape painter George Loring Brown (1814 - 1889), from 1872 until 1877, although the exact dates are unclear. Downs was active from at least 1880, when his initials A D appeared on a view of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, until 1914, when he collaborated with T. M. Fowler on a view of Haverhill, Massachusetts. Over the course of his career he created views of Essex, Connecticut; Richmond, Indiana; Athens, Georgia; and Scranton, Pennsylvania, along with numerous others.