Washington Allston art links 

Original works by Washington Allston available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 

Washington Allston at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
The Prophet Elijah, etching
Mrs. William Channing (Lucy Ellery Channing), 1811
Dr. John King, 1814

Washington Allston at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
3 works by Washington Allston online

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Paintings collection online

Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

Boston Athenaeum
Opening of the Casket

Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Utah

Brooklyn Museum, New York City   NEW!

Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
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Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina
Coast Scene on the Mediterranean

Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
Miriam the Prophetess, 1821

Five College Museums Collections Database, Massachusetts

Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami, Florida
Jason Returning to Demand his Father's Kingdom, 1807-08

National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1814

Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Scene from Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew"

Washington Allston at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
"Director's Choice" discussion of Hermia and Helena

Washington Allston at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Hermia and Helena

Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago
Lorenzo and Jessica, 1832

The Huntington Library, California

The Newark Museum, New Jersey
A Roman Lady, ca.1831

Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Christ Healing the Sick, 1813

 
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:

Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)

 

Washington Allston in the Art Renewal Center

Washington Allston at CGFA  

Washington Allston at The Athenaeum  
7 works online by Allston

Washington Allston in the Web Gallery of Art  

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

California State University WorldImages Database  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

The History Project at U.C. Davis   NEW!  

 

Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
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Shakespeare Illustrated

Why We Think Nature is Beautiful
Illustrated article by Eugene C. Hargrove

 

Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Washington Allston  
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)  

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)   NEW!  

"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon Look Inside Books: Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader.              Search Inside Books: Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon.   look inside Washington Allston, Secret Societies, and the Alchemy of Anglo-American Painting