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Washington Allston (1779-1843)
Professions: Painter
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WASHINGTON ALLSTON 1779-1843
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Washington Allston (1779-1843)
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Washington Allston (American, 1779-1843), "Morning
Washington Allston 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 inspiring models of glazing and colouring. Dubbed ‘the Count’ by his Harvard College classmates for his way with fashion, Allston explored alternatives to the portrait tradition with landscapes, as well as with depictions of irrational figures, for example Man in Chains (1800; Andover, MA, Phillips Acad., Addison Gal.). After graduating in 1800, he sold his patrimony to fund study abroad.
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