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Washington Allston

[American Romantic Painter, 1779-1843]

• Relationships: Studied under Benjamin West.
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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:
Notable SiteWashington Allston at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
4 works online

Notable SiteFine Arts Museums of San Francisco   NEW!

Notable SiteMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York City   NEW!  

Notable SiteMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston   NEW!
Paintings collection online

Notable SiteNational Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.   NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online

Notable SiteRoyal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK

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

Notable SiteWashington 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:
Notable SiteWashington Allston at The Art Renewal Center

Notable SiteWashington Allston at The Athenaeum  
7 works online by Allston

Notable SiteWashington Allston in the Web Gallery of Art  

Notable SiteWikimedia 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  

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Miscellaneous Sites:
Shakespeare Illustrated

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

 
Articles and Reference Sites:
Notable SiteEncyclopedia 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

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

Notable SiteWikipedia, 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.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon.
 
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Washington Allston, Secret Societies, and the Alchemy of Anglo-American Painting


 
 
 
 
 
 
 



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