Washington Allston
American painter and poet
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Washington Allston ARA 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... Wikipedia
Born: November 5, 1779, Georgetown, SC
Died: July 9, 1843 (age 63 years), Cambridge, MA
Period: Romanticism
Partner: Ann Channing (1809–) and Ann Channing
Parents: William Allston and Rachel Moore Flagg
Spouse: Martha Remington Dana (m. 1830)
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