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See also:ALLSTON, See also:WASHINGTON (1779-1843) , See also:American See also:historical painter and poet, was See also:born on the 5th of See also:November 1779 at Waccamaw, See also:South Carolina, where his See also:father was a planter. He graduated at Harvard in 1800, and for a See also:short See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time pursued his See also:artistic studies at See also:Charleston with See also:Edward See also:Greene Malbone (1777–1807) the See also:miniature painter, and See also:Charles See also:Fraser (1782–186o). With the former, in 18or, he went to See also:London, and entered the Royal See also:Academy as a student of See also:Benjamin See also:West, with whom he formed a lifelong friendship. In 1804 he went to See also:Paris, and, after a few months' See also:residence there, to See also:Rome, where he spent the greater See also:part of the next four years. During this See also:period he became intimate with See also:Coleridge and See also:Thorwaldsen. From 18o9 to 1811 he resided in his native See also:country, and from ISII to 1817 he painted in See also:England. After visiting Paris a
second time, he returned to the See also:United States, and practised his profession at See also:Boston (1818-183o), and afterwards at See also:Cam-See also:bridge, See also:Massachusetts, where he died on the 9th of See also:July 1843. He was elected an See also:associate of the Royal Academy in 1819. In See also:colour and the management of See also:light and shade Allston closely imitated the Venetian school, and he has hence been styled the "American See also:Titian." Many of his pictures have Biblical subjects, and Allston himself had a profoundly religious nature. His first considerable See also:painting, " The Dead See also:Man Revived," executed shortly after his second visit to England, and now at the See also:Pennsylvania Academy of See also:Fine Arts in See also:Philadelphia, gained a See also:prize of 200 guineas. In England he also painted his " St See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter Liberated by the See also:Angel," " Uriel in the See also:Sun " (at See also:Stafford See also:House), " See also:Jacob's See also:Dream " (at Petworth) and " See also:Elijah in the See also:Wilderness." To the period of his residence in See also:America belong " The See also:Prophet See also:Jeremiah " (atYale), " See also:Saul and the See also:Witch of See also:Endor," "Miriam," " See also:Beatrice," "Rosalie," " Spalatro's See also:Vision of the Bloody See also:Hand," and the vast but unfinished " Belshazzar's Feast " (in the Boston See also:Athenaeum), at which he was working at the time of his See also:death. As a writer, Allston shows See also:great facility of expression and imaginative See also:power. His friend Coleridge (a portrait of whom by Allston is in the See also:National See also:Gallery) said of him that he was surpassed by no man of his See also:age in artistic and poetic See also:genius. His See also:literary See also:works are—The Sylphs of the Seasons and other Poems (1813), where he displays true sympathy with nature and deep knowledge of the human See also:heart; Monaldi (1841), a tragical See also:romance, the See also:scene of which is laid in See also:Italy; and Lectures on See also:Art, edited by his See also:brother-in-See also:law, R. H. See also:Dana the novelist (185o).
See J. B. Flagg's See also:Life and Letters of Washington Allston (New See also:York, 1892).
End of Article: ALLSTON, WASHINGTON (1779-1843)
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