Artist: Washington Allston (1779 - 1843)
Nationality: American
Movement: Romanticism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
American painter, Washington Allston was a leading figure of the Romantic movment in the United States. He lived and worked mostly in Boston, although he traveled to Europe twice. From 1801 to 1808, he studied in London under Benjamin West and then returned to Europe again from 1811 to 1818. His later work consists mainly of landscape, putting the emphasis on mood rather than observation. Also a writer, Allston produced poetry, novels, and art treatises.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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Attributed to William Walker, English, 1725-1793 Washington Allston Oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts,
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Washington Allston Dr. John King oil on canvas 1814
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Washington Allston The Prophet Elijah, plate 16 in the book, Choice Etchings (London: Alexander Strahan, 1887) etching 1887
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Washington Allston Mrs. William Channing (Lucy Ellery Channing) oil on canvas 1811
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Washington Allston - Belshazzar's Feast 1817-1943 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Washington Allston - Italian Landscape 1828-30 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Washington Allston - Samuel Williams c. 1817 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Washington Allston - The Flight of Florimell 1819 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Washington Allston - Italian Shepherd Boy 1819 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Washington Allston - The Opening of the Casket c. 1807 oil on canvas Boston Athenaeum American
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Alonzo Chappel, American, 1828-1887 Washington Allston about 1862 Oil and gouache on paper 42.86 x
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Washington Allston, American, 1779-1843 Rising of a Thunderstorm at Sea 1804 Oil on canvas 97.15
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Washington Allston, American, 1779-1843 William Ellery Channing 1811 Oil on canvas 79.37 x 70.17 cm
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Washington Allston, American, 1779-1843 Moonlight 1819 Oil on canvas 63.82 x 90.8 cm (25 1/8
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Washington Allston, American, 1779-1843 Beatrice 1819 Oil on canvas 76.83 x 64.45 cm (30 1/4
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Washington Allston - Hermia and Helena before 1818 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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Washington Allston, American, 1779-1843 Study for Belshazzar"s Feast 1817 Oil on paperboard 64.45 x 87.63
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Washington Allston, American, 1779-1843 Landscape, American Scenery: Time, Afternoon, with a Southwest Haze 1835 Oil
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Washington Allston, American, 1779-1843 Head of a Jew 1817 Oil on canvas 76.2 x 63.82
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Washington Allston, American, 1779-1843 The Poor Author and the Rich Bookseller 1811 Oil on canvas
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Washington Allston, American, 1779-1843 Self Portrait 1805 Oil on canvas 80.33 x 67.31 cm (31
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Washington Allston, American, 1779-1843 Donna Mencia in the Robber"s Cavern 1815 Oil on canvas 141.92
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Washington Allston, American, 1779-1843 Elijah in the Desert Painting 1818 Oil on canvas 125.09 x
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Washington Allston, American, 1779-1843 The Angel Releasing St. Peter from Prison 1814-16 Oil on canvas
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Artist: Thomas Sully Title: Portrait of George Washington Date: 1820 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions:
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Jean-Antoine Houdon - George Washington 1786-1793 plaster National Gallery of Art French
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Gilbert Stuart - George Washington 1796 oil on canvas Mead Art Museum, Amherst College American
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Charles Willson Peale - George Washington 1787 oil on canvas Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts American
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Jean-Antoine Houdon - George Washington c. 1786 plaster bust Boston Athenaeum
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Charles Willson Peale - George Washington c. 1779-81 oil on canvas The Metropolitan Museum of Art American
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Gilbert Stuart - George Washington c. 1803-1805 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Edward Savage - The Washington Family 1789-1796 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Gilbert Stuart - George Washington c. 1821 oil on wood National Gallery of Art American
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Edward Hicks - Washington at the Delaware 1849 oil on canvas Chrysler Museum of Art American
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Edward Savage - George Washington c. 1796 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Winslow Homer - Mount Washington 1869 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago American
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Rembrandt Peale - George Washington c. 1850 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Gilbert Stuart - George Washington after 1796 oil on canvas Corcoran Gallery of Art American
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Rembrandt Peale - George Washington 1859 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Rembrandt Peale - George Washington 1795 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Rembrandt Peale - Washington Before Yorktown 1824 oil on canvas Corcoran Gallery of Art American
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Gilbert Stuart - George Washington 1795 oil on canvas The Metropolitan Museum of Art American
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Gilbert Stuart - George Washington 1795-96 oil on canvas The Frick Collection American
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Gilbert Stuart - George Washington before 1801 oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum American
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Kenneth Hartwell In Back of Washington Square (Washington News, New York City) Lithograph 1939
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Charles Allston Collins - Wilkie Collins (1853) 1853 oil on panel The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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Charles Willson Peale - George Washington at Princeton 1779 oil on canvas Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts American
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Andre Kertesz - Washington Square, Winter 1954 gelatin silver print Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Walter Robertson - General George Washington 1794 watercolor on ivory Cincinnati Art Museum American
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John James Audubon - Washington Sea Eagle c. 1836-1839 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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Winslow Homer - The Summit of Mount Washington 1869 wood engraving Portland Museum of Art American
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THomas Sully - Portrait of George Washington c. 1820 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts American
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Charles Peale Polk - General Washington at Princeton c. 1790 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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George Washington, ca. 1779-1781 Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827)AmericanOil on canvas; 95 x 61 3/4 in.
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Emanuel Leutze - Washington Crossing the Delaware 1851 oil on canvas The Metropolitan Museum of Art American
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Jasper F. Cropsey - Mount Washington, New Hampshire 1870 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Robert Street - George Washington Deal 1834 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Guy Wiggins - Washington Square in Winter 1938 oil on canvas Richmond Art Museum American
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Junius Stearns - Washington as Statesman at the Constitutional Convention 1856 oil on canvas Virginia Museum of Fine Arts American
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Charles Willson Peale - George Washington at the Battle of Princeton c. 1779 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Edward Corbett - Washington D.C. November 1963 III 1963 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Gilbert Stuart - George Washington (Vaughan portrait) 1795 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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John Wesley Jarvis, American, 1781-1840 De Witt Clinton about 1810 Oil on canvas 76.2 x
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Claes Oldenburg - Scissors as Monument (Scissors Obelisk, Washington D.C.) 1967 lithograph Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at The University of Oklahoma American
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Arthur Rothstein - George Washington Carver, Tuskegee, Alabama 1941 gelatin silver print Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Thomas Hart Benton - The Artists' Show, Washington Square, New York 1946 oil and tempera on c The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art American
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Gilbert Stuart - George Washington (Vaughan-Sinclair portrait) 1795 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Louis Lozowick - Hudson Bridge (George Washington Bridge) 1929 lithograph Hofstra Museum American
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Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet, French, 1819-1877 The Quarry (La Curée) 1856 Oil on canvas 210.2
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George Heriot, English, 1766-1844 Distant View of Washington from Georgetown View of Washington From Georgetown
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Asher Brown Durand Washington. From Houdon's Bust 1833
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Rembrandt Peale George Washington oil on canvas circa 1854
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Thomas Nast On to Washington Wood engraving 1871
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Leigh Hunt Washington Bridge Etching 1896
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William Washington La Rochelle Etching 1928
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John Cheney Martha Washington 19th century
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John Cheney Martha Washington 19th century
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Ralph Avery - Jonathan Child House, South Washington Street, Rochester n.d. watercolor and gouac Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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W.G. Jackman [Washington Irving] 19th century
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Jean Avisse Saucer from set presented to Martha Washington as First Lady porcelain circa 1780 - 1790
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Asher Brown Durand Washington 18th - 19th century
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Connor Everts Execution lithograph 1960
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Anonymous Dr. John Washington Van Zandt, Jr., as a Child oil on canvas 1836
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John Henry Belter Flask General Washington, blue-aquamarine non-lead glass 1827 - 1850
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Roi (Roy) Partridge Official Seal of the University of Washington ET 19th - 20th century
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Margaret Bourke-White - Through a Windshield, the 40-mile Baltimore-Washington Stretch is One Long Clutter of Ugly Signs 1938 silver print Spencer Museum of Art American
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George Washington, 1795 Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828)AmericanOil on canvas; 30 1/4 x 25 1/4 in. (76.8
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Augustus Saint-Gaudens George Washington bronze 19th - 20th century
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George Washington Tyler Jesse Olney oil on canvas circa 1830
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Thomas Holloway Portrait (George Washington?) engraving 18th - 19th century
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Emma Bormann Washington, Georgetown Color woodcut 20th century
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Placer Times View of Sacramento City, From Washington lithograph on paper 1850
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Rembrandt Peale George Washington (Porthole Portrait) oil on canvas circa 1846
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Timothy Cole Portrait of George Washington 19th - 20th century
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William Matthew Prior George Washington reverse painting on glass circa 1860
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Anonymous George Washington on a White Charger oil on wood panel (4 boards) 19th century
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John Sartain The Washington Family Engraving with hand coloring 19th century
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John Baker Washington Crossing The Delaware Etching 19th century
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George T. Plowman Old Farm, Washington Etching 19th - 20th century
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John Martin The Assuaging of the Waters oil on canvas 1840

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (2)
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Mobius: Drawing By Chance: Installation by Margaret B. Tittemore

Atlanta College of Art, Woodruff Arts Center: Tony Gray: The New Black is Black
Starring the resplendently Afro-ed Panthers in their bell-bottomed glory, the collages capture the flair and un-self-conscious enthusiasm of teen bedroom walls — the homemade stage-set of American adolescence — circa 1973. Patterning nostalgia ...

Further Artwork and Information:

Washington Allston Online
Washington Allston
Allston, Washington. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
Winslow Homer, The Obtuse Bard: Childhood
Portrait of Samuel Taylor Coleridge -by- Washington Allston
Newport Notables
Washington Allston. I. As A Painter - Unpublished Reminiscences Of Henry Greenough -- Washington at Boston - Sixty-...
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