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Washington Allston
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American artist (1779-1843)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1779
- Died
- 1843
- Works
- 14
Top works
- The Tuscan master; or, A new and easy method of acquiring a perfect knowledge of the Italian language in a short time, divided into two parts
- The paintings of Washington Allston
- Autobiographical works of Washington Allston
- The correspondence of Washington Allston
- Lectures on art and poems, 1850
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1960-12-08
- Active to
- 2014-02-27
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,613x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,776x
- The GTEx Consortium atlas of genetic regulatory effects across human tissues
· 2020 · cited 5,339x
- The International HapMap Project
· 2003 · cited 4,925x
- The 2019 WHO classification of tumours of the digestive system
· 2019 · cited 3,470x
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Quotes
- “Thus falling, falling from afar,As if some melancholy starHad mingled with her light her sighs,And dropped them from the skies.”
- “Titian, Tintoretto, and Paul Veronese absolutely enchanted me, for they took away all sense of subject. ... It was the poetry of color which I felt, procreative in its nature, giving birth to a thousand things which the eye cannot see, and distinct from their cause.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1779-11-05 ) November 5, 1779, Near Georgetown, South Carolina , U.S.
- Died
- July 9, 1843 (1843-07-09) (aged 63), Cambridge, Massachusetts , U.S.
- Known for
- Painting , Poetry
- Spouses
- Ann Channing (1809–15) Margaret Remington Dana (1830-43)
via Wikipedia infobox
Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Washington Allston, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Washington Allston ARA (November 5, 1779 – July 9, 1843) was an American painter and poet, born in Waccamaw Parish, South Carolina. Allston pioneered America's Romantic movement of landscape painting. He was well known during his lifetime for his experiments with dramatic subject matter and his bold use of light and atmospheric color. While his early artworks concentrate on grandiose and spectacular aspects of nature, his later pieces represent a more subjective and visionary approach.
Biography
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