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Washington Allston (1779-1843)  


Professions: Painter

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(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)

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