Washington Allston
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 181 years ago |
Date of birth | November 5,1779 |
Zodiac sign | Scorpio |
Born | Georgetown |
South Carolina | |
United States | |
Date of died | July 9,1843 |
Died | Cambridge |
Massachusetts | |
United States | |
On view | The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | |
Toledo Museum of Art | |
Periods | Romanticism |
Known for | Painting |
Poetry | |
Job | Visual artist |
Education | Harvard University |
Royal Academy of Arts | |
Harvard College | |
Books | Lectures on Art, and Poems |
The Sylphs of the Season with Other Poems | |
Monaldi: A Tale | |
Washington Allston, Secret Societies, and the Alchemy of Anglo-American Painting | |
Lectures on Art, and Poems, by Washington Allston. Ed. by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. | |
Autobiographical Works of Washington Allston: Facsimile Reproductions | |
Spouse | Martha Remington Dana |
Current partner | Ann Channing |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 632079 |
Washington Allston Life story
Washington Allston ARA 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.