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Washington Allston
[American Romantic Painter, 1779-1843]
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Washington Allston Works Online
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Original works by Washington Allston available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Washington Allston at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
4 works online
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK
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
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
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
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami, Florida
Jason Returning to Demand his Father's Kingdom, 1807-08
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1814
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago NEW!
Lorenzo and Jessica, 1832
The Huntington Library, California
The Newark Museum, New Jersey
A Roman Lady, ca.1831
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Christ Healing the Sick, 1813
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National 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)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Washington Allston at The Art Renewal Center
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
Washington Allston at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
The History Project at U.C. Davis
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Shakespeare Illustrated
Why We Think Nature is Beautiful
Illustrated article by Eugene C. Hargrove
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Washington Allston 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
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
"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.
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look inside
Washington Allston, Secret Societies, and the Alchemy of Anglo-American Painting
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