Close
Washington Allston (1779-1843)
Professions:
Painter
|
Allston at Auction and Past Prices
Alert Me about Allston
About Washington Allston
Allston's Biography |
Allston on Sale Now at Galleries
Auction Houses that have sold Allston - 9
|
Christie's
|
Phillips de Pury & Company
|
Biography
(b
Waccamaw,
SC,
5
Nov
1779;
d
Cambridgeport,
MA,
9
July
1843).
American
painter.
The
son
of
a
prominent
South
Carolina
plantation
owner
of
English
descent,
he
began
to
draw
around
the
age
of
six,
and
he
moved
to
his
uncle’s
home
in
Newport,
RI,
at
the
age
of
eight.
While
there
he
came
into
contact
with
the
portrait
painter
Samuel
King,
but
it
was
the
exhibited
portraits
of
Robert
Edge
Pine
that
offered
him
... (view more)
Grove Art excerpts - Electronic ©2003, Oxford Art Online
Related Content on Hudson River School — 64 artists:
|
|
|
Related Content on Romanticism — 54 artists:
|
|
|
