Washington Allston

1779–1843 · Romanticism

Washington Allston was an American painter and poet, born in Waccamaw Parish, South Carolina. Allston pioneered America's Romantic movement of landscape painting. He was well known during his lifetime for his experiments with dramatic subject matter and his bold use of light and atmospheric color. While his early artworks concentrate on grandiose and spectacular aspects of nature, his later pieces represent a more subjective and visionary approach.

16 paintings

• Samuel Williams (c. 1817)
• Self Portrait (1805)
• William Ellery Channing (1811)
• Landscape, American Scenery: Time, Afternoon, with a Southwest Haze (1835)
• Study for Belshazzar's Feast (1817)
• The Angel Releasing St. Peter from Prison
• Moonlight (1819)
• Head of a Jew (1817)
• Donna Mencia in the Robber's Cavern (1815)
• Landscape with a Lake (1804)
• The Poor Author and the Rich Bookseller (1811)
• Elijah in the Desert (1818)
• Rising of a Thunderstorm at Sea (1804)
• Beatrice (1819)
• A Landscape after Sunset (c. 1819)
• Katharina and Petruchio (Scene from Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew") (1809)