Washington Allston
American artist (1779-1843) · United States · On the map · Artists · Died at 63
Washington Allston 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.
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Allston painted by Gilbert Stuart, c. 1818. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Landscape with Lake (1804)
Italian Landscape
Elijah in the Desert, 1818, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Flight of Florimell, 1819
Belshazzar's Feast, 1817-1843, Detroit Institute of Arts
Allston was buried in the Dana family plot in the Old Burying Ground.Awards
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While his early artworks concentrate on grandiose and spectacular aspects of nature, his later pieces represent a more subjective and visionary approach.
