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Robbers Fighting with Each Other for the Spoils Over a Murdered Traveler
Auction: 09/27/2017
Lot: 250
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1779 Georgetown, South Carolina - 1843 Cambridgeport, Massachusetts. Known for: Allegorical, portrait, history and religious painting.
Achieving an international reputation as a romantic painter, poet and art philosopher, Washington Allston did historical, portrait and historical painting in a dark, wild, mystical, lofty style. His... Read full biography
Achieving an international reputation as a romantic painter, poet and art philosopher, Washington Allston did historical, portrait and historical painting in a dark, wild, mystical, lofty style. His many years spent abroad became a major influence for American artists to study in Europe. He also... Read full biography
Achieving an international reputation as a romantic painter, poet and art philosopher, Washington Allston did historical, portrait and historical painting in a dark, wild, mystical, lofty style. His many years spent abroad became a major influence for American artists to study in Europe. He also affected the changing image of United States artists from being slightly disreputable artisans to romantic, poetic idealists. He was born in Georgetown, South Carolina, and graduated from Harvard... Read full biography
Achieving an international reputation as a romantic painter, poet and art philosopher, Washington Allston did historical, portrait and historical painting in a dark, wild, mystical, lofty style. His many years spent abroad became a major influence for American artists to study in Europe. He also affected the changing image of United States artists from being slightly disreputable artisans to romantic, poetic idealists. He was born in Georgetown, South Carolina, and graduated from Harvard College in Boston in 1800. From 1800 to 1818, excepting three years that he spent in Boston, he was in Europe where he adopted a romantic classicism that influenced a number of painters who followed him. He studied at the Royal Academy in London with... Read full biography
Achieving an international reputation as a romantic painter, poet and art philosopher, Washington Allston did historical, portrait and historical painting in a dark, wild, mystical, lofty style. His many years spent abroad became a major influence for American artists to study in Europe. He also affected the changing image of United States artists from being slightly disreputable artisans to romantic, poetic idealists. He was born in Georgetown, South Carolina, and graduated from Harvard College in Boston in 1800. From 1800 to 1818, excepting three years that he spent in Boston, he was in Europe where he adopted a romantic classicism that influenced a number of painters who followed him. He studied at the Royal Academy in London with Benjamin West and traveled and painted with John Vanderlyn. In 1805, he settled in Rome until 1808... Read full biography
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