Washington Allston

(1779-1843)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Allston, Washington, 1779-1843 DNB: Allston, Washington (1779-1843), painter and poet LBT ID: WaAllst1843 VIAF ID: 57408203 LOC ID: n80010033	B/BAP: 1779-11-05 DIED: 1843-07-09
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Harvard-educated American painter and poet who studied with Benjamin West and was friends with S. T. Coleridge and Washington Irving.
REFERENCES TO Washington Allston: Robert Southey, A Vision of Judgement (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown., 1821) THE YOUNG SPIRITS. Verse 2: p. 42a p. 42a Robert Southey to George Ticknor, 16 July 1823 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 6 Edward Everett to Samuel Rogers, 14 September 1846 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXVII. 1822-1823 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 18: Poets Found 1: ¶ 7 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter VI. 1845-46.