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Washington Allston
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American artist (1779-1843)
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Washington Allston was an American painter, poet, writer and novelist, born in Charleston on 5 November 1779. He was educated at Harvard College and Harvard University, worked in Rome and Boston, and spoke both French and English. His genre was history painting, and he was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Academy of Arts, and was also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His relative was George Whiting Flagg.
Allston's paintings are held in the collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He also published 14 written works, among them The Paintings of Washington Allston and Lectures on Art and Poems. He died in Cambridge on 9 July 1843.
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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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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)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Charleston
- Place of death
- Cambridge
- Occupation
- artist
- Educated at
- Harvard College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- painting
- Genre
- history painting
- Image
- ALLSTON, Washington B & W (Biographical Dictionary of America, vol. 1).png
- Work location
- Boston
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- Commons category
- Washington Allston
- date of birth
- 1779-01-01
- date of death
- 1843-01-01
- Commons Creator page
- Washington Allston
- writing language
- English language
- name in native language
- Washington Allston
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- Rosie O'Donnell
- relative
- George Whiting Flagg
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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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