Washington Allston Storm Rising at Sea Painting ID:: 2300 Washington Allston1.jpg
Storm Rising at Sea 1804
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Washington Allston Landscape with a Lake (nn03) Painting ID:: 23246 new8/Washington Allston-868452.jpg
Landscape with a Lake (nn03) 1804
Oil on canvas,h 96.5 x w 130.2 cm h 38 x w 51 1/4 in Museum of Fine Arts,Boston MA
Washington Allston Moon-light landscape (mk43) Painting ID:: 25708 new8/Washington Allston-933867.jpg
Moon-light landscape (mk43) 1819
Museum of Fine Arts,Boston
Washington Allston Self-Portrait Painting ID:: 26988 new2/Washington Allston-684733.jpg
Self-Portrait mk52
1805
Oil on canvas
80.3x67.3cm
Museum of Fine Arts,Boston
Washington Allston Moonlit Landscape Painting ID:: 31858 new4/Washington Allston-449265.jpg
Moonlit Landscape mk77
1819
Oil on canvas
24x35in
Washington Allston Italian Shepherd Boy Painting ID:: 39055 new12/Washington Allston-923346.jpg
Italian Shepherd Boy mk140
circa 1821-23
Oil on canvas
119x85.3cm
Washington Allston Elijah in the Desert Painting ID:: 40657 new16/Washington Allston-437889.jpg
Elijah in the Desert mk156
1818
Oil on canvas
125.1x184.8cm
Washington Allston Uriel Standing in the Sun Painting ID:: 44250 new16/Washington Allston-986223.jpg
Uriel Standing in the Sun 1817
Oil on canvas,
248 x 198 cm
Washington Allston Burial of Latane Painting ID:: 49327 new17/Washington Allston-383846.jpg
Burial of Latane mk195
1874
Oil on cnvas
48x55
Washington Allston Florimell Flight Painting ID:: 58192 new20/Washington Allston-738679.jpg
Florimell Flight Florimell's Flight, 1819.
Washington Allston Jeremiah Dictating His Prophecy of the Destruction of Jerusalem to Baruch the Scribe Painting ID:: 72976 new24/Washington Allston-698669.jpg
Jeremiah Dictating His Prophecy of the Destruction of Jerusalem to Baruch the Scribe "Jeremiah Dictating His Prophecy of the Destruction of Jerusalem to Baruch the Scribe," oil on canvas, by the American artist Washington Allston. 89 3/8 in. x 74 3/4 in. Yale University Art Gallery, gift of Samuel Finley Breese Morse, B.A. 1810. Courtesy of Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
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Washington Allston Jeremiah Dictating His Prophecy of the Destruction of Jerusalem to Baruch the Scribe Painting ID:: 74803 new24/Washington Allston-966885.jpg
Jeremiah Dictating His Prophecy of the Destruction of Jerusalem to Baruch the Scribe English: "Jeremiah Dictating His Prophecy of the Destruction of Jerusalem to Baruch the Scribe," oil on canvas, by the American artist Washington Allston. 89 3/8 in. x 74 3/4 in. Yale University Art Gallery, gift of Samuel Finley Breese Morse, B.A. 1810. Courtesy of Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Date 1820
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Washington Allston Uriel Standing in the Sun Painting ID:: 79875 new24/Washington Allston-748583.jpg
Uriel Standing in the Sun 1817(1817)
Oil on canvas
Height: 248 cm (97.6 in). Width: 198 cm (78 in).
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Washington Allston Elias in der Wuste Painting ID:: 87891 new25/Washington Allston-486868.jpg
Elias in der Wuste Date 1818(1818)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 111 x 184 cm (43.7 x 72.4 in)
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Washington Allston The Spanish Girl in Reverie Painting ID:: 92150 new25/Washington Allston-568984.jpg
The Spanish Girl in Reverie Oil on canvas. 30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm).
1831
1779-1843
Washington Allston Gallery Allston was born on a plantation on the Waccamaw River near Georgetown, South Carolina. His mother Rachel Moore had married Captain William Allston in 1775, though her husband died in 1781, shortly after the Battle of Cowpens. Moore remarried to Dr. Henry C. Flagg, the son of a wealthy shipping merchant from Newport, Rhode Island.
Allston graduated from Harvard College in 1800 and moved to Charleston, South Carolina for a short time before sailing to England in May 1801. He was admitted to the Royal Academy in London in September, when painter Benjamin West was then the president.
From 1803 to 1808 he visited the great museums of Paris and then for several years those of Italy, where he met Washington Irving in Rome, and Coleridge, his lifelong friend. In 1809 Allston married Ann Channing, sister of William Ellery Channing. Samuel F. B. Morse was one of Allston's art pupils and accompanied Allston to Europe in 1811. After traveling throughout western Europe, Allston finally settled in London, where he won fame and prizes for his pictures.
Allston was also a published writer. In London in 1813, he published The Sylphs of the Seasons, with Other Poems, republished in Boston, Massachusetts later that year. His wife died in February 1815, leaving him saddened, lonely, and homesick for America.
In 1818 he returned to the United States and lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts for 25 years. He was the uncle of the artists George Whiting Flagg and Jared Bradley Flagg, both of whom studied painting under him.
In 1841 he published Monaldi, a romance illustrating Italian life, and in 1850, a volume of his Lectures on Art, and Poems.
Allston died on July 9, 1843, at age 64. Allston is buried in Harvard Square, in "the Old Burying Ground" between the First Parish Church and Christ Church.