Artist: Washington Allston (1779 - 1843)
Nationality: American
Movement: Romanticism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
American painter, Washington Allston was a leading figure of the Romantic movment in the United States. He lived and worked mostly in Boston, although he traveled to Europe twice. From 1801 to 1808, he studied in London under Benjamin West and then returned to Europe again from 1811 to 1818. His later work consists mainly of landscape, putting the emphasis on mood rather than observation. Also a writer, Allston produced poetry, novels, and art treatises.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Washington Allston, Dr. John King, 1814
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Attributed to William Walker, English, 1725-1793 Washington Allston Oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts,
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Washington Allston, Mrs. William Channing (Lucy Ellery Channing), 1811
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Washington Allston, The Prophet Elijah, plate 16 in the book, Choice Etchings (London: Alexander Strahan, 1887), 1887
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Washington Allston - Belshazzar's Feast 1817-1943 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Washington Allston - The Opening of the Casket c. 1807 oil on canvas Boston Athenaeum American
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Washington Allston - Italian Landscape 1828-30 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Washington Allston - Samuel Williams c. 1817 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Washington Allston - Italian Shepherd Boy 1819 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Washington Allston - The Flight of Florimell 1819 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Alonzo Chappel, American, 1828-1887 Washington Allston about 1862 Oil and gouache on paper 42.86 x
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Washington Allston, American, 1779-1843 Rising of a Thunderstorm at Sea 1804 Oil on canvas 97.15
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Washington Allston, American, 1779-1843 William Ellery Channing 1811 Oil on canvas 79.37 x 70.17 cm
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Washington Allston, American, 1779-1843 Moonlight 1819 Oil on canvas 63.82 x 90.8 cm (25 1/8
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Washington Allston, American, 1779-1843 Beatrice 1819 Oil on canvas 76.83 x 64.45 cm (30 1/4
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Washington Allston - Hermia and Helena before 1818 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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Washington Allston, American, 1779-1843 Study for Belshazzar"s Feast 1817 Oil on paperboard 64.45 x 87.63
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Washington Allston, American, 1779-1843 Landscape, American Scenery: Time, Afternoon, with a Southwest Haze 1835 Oil
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Washington Allston, American, 1779-1843 Head of a Jew 1817 Oil on canvas 76.2 x 63.82
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Washington Allston, American, 1779-1843 The Poor Author and the Rich Bookseller 1811 Oil on canvas
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Washington Allston, American, 1779-1843 Self Portrait 1805 Oil on canvas 80.33 x 67.31 cm (31
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Washington Allston, American, 1779-1843 Donna Mencia in the Robber"s Cavern 1815 Oil on canvas 141.92
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Washington Allston, American, 1779-1843 Elijah in the Desert Painting 1818 Oil on canvas 125.09 x
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Washington Allston, American, 1779-1843 The Angel Releasing St. Peter from Prison 1814-16 Oil on canvas
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Kenneth Hartwell, In Back of Washington Square (Washington News, New York City), 1939
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Artist: Thomas Sully Title: Portrait of George Washington Date: 1820 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions:
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Jean-Antoine Houdon - George Washington 1786-1793 plaster National Gallery of Art French
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Gilbert Stuart - George Washington 1796 oil on canvas Mead Art Museum, Amherst College American
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Charles Willson Peale - George Washington 1787 oil on canvas Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts American
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Charles Willson Peale - George Washington c. 1779-81 oil on canvas The Metropolitan Museum of Art American
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Jean-Antoine Houdon - George Washington c. 1786 plaster bust Boston Athenaeum
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Gilbert Stuart - George Washington c. 1803-1805 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Edward Savage - The Washington Family 1789-1796 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Rembrandt Peale - George Washington 1795 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Gilbert Stuart - George Washington c. 1821 oil on wood National Gallery of Art American
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Gilbert Stuart - George Washington before 1801 oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum American
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Edward Savage - George Washington c. 1796 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Rembrandt Peale - George Washington c. 1850 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Rembrandt Peale - George Washington 1859 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Gilbert Stuart - George Washington after 1796 oil on canvas Corcoran Gallery of Art American

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (2)
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Mobius: Drawing By Chance: Installation by Margaret B. Tittemore

Atlanta College of Art, Woodruff Arts Center: Tony Gray: The New Black is Black
Starring the resplendently Afro-ed Panthers in their bell-bottomed glory, the collages capture the flair and un-self-conscious enthusiasm of teen bedroom walls — the homemade stage-set of American adolescence — circa 1973. Patterning nostalgia ...

Further Artwork and Information:

Washington Allston Online
Washington Allston
Allston, Washington. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
Winslow Homer, The Obtuse Bard: Childhood
Portrait of Samuel Taylor Coleridge -by- Washington Allston
Newport Notables
Washington Allston. I. As A Painter - Unpublished Reminiscences Of Henry Greenough -- Washington at Boston - Sixty-...
Washington Allston - Artist Painting Prices, Art Appraisal, Artist Paintings [AskART.com]
Wikipedia: Washington Allston
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