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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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Art Method
- •Cartography, Mapmaking, Globes, Topography
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
Art Style
- •Hudson River School
- •Hudson River School Style of Painting
- •Luminous, Luminism
Art Subject
- •Allegory, Metaphor, Parable
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •Nude Figure, Nudity
- •Pastoral Landscape
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
- •Romanticism, Idealism, Nostalgia
- •Seascapes, Seasides
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Boston Before 1900
- •England, Great Britain Before 1900, London
- •Europe
- •Hudson River Valley, New York
- •Italy Before World War I
- •Niagara Falls
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
Art Association
- •Artists Fund Society
- •Boston Artists Asssociation
- •Brooklyn Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, Elected Member
Art Teacher
- •Benjamin West
Art School
- •Royal Academy of Arts School (Schools) of London, Student
Chronology
- •Early 19th Century Before Civil War
Art Collection
- •Daniel J Terra Collection
Added Description
- •Portrait Specialty
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Artists Fund Society-
- •Brooklyn Art Association-
- •National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
- •Boston Athenaeum
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
- •Paris Salons
Exhibition By An Art School
- •Royal Academy of the Arts, England
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts