Washington Allston

Washington Allston, known as The American Titian, (November 5, 1779 - July 9, 1843) was a U.S. poet and painter born in Waccamaw, South Carolina. His genius was much admired by Coleridge.

He graduated from Harvard College in 1800, and for the next three years went to London to study art in the Royal Academy, of which Benjamin West was then the president.

Samuel F. B. Morse was one of Allston's art pupils. Morse even accompanied Allston to Europe in 1811.

He then studied in Rome, and finally settled in London, where he won fame and prizes for his pictures.

In 1818 he returned to the United States and lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he died at age sixty-four.

His work "Belshazzar's Feast" hangs in the Boston Athenaeum.

He was the uncle of the artists George Whiting Flagg and Jared Bradley Flagg, both of whom studied painting under him.

He also wrote a good deal of verse including The Sylphs of the Seasons, etc. (1813), and The Two Painters, a satire. He also produced a novel, Monaldi.

The west Boston neighborhood of Allston is named for him.

The paintings are the excellent portrayal of the events and scenes that we see around us. The painters are the best cameras of the world. They reproduce many different types of pictures. They even draw imaginary pictures that do not exist in this world. We tend to use both thinned oil paints and dense oil paints. Masterpieces can be dyed more than once, but each time it may be different from the existing paintings.h

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