ALLSTON, Washington, American painter and author: b. Waccamaw, S. C., 5 Nov. 1779; d. Cambridge, Mass., 9 July 1843. In early boyhood he moved to Newport, where he at tended school. He was graduated from Har vard in 1800, and in the following year went abroad, where he became a student of the Royal Academy. Three years later he went to Rome and there studied the works of the old masters. He passed four years at Rome, the companion of Thorwaldsen, Coleridge, Van derlyn and Washington Irving, and acquired the lofty tone of the old school, gaining a repu tation as a colorist. Returning to the United States in 1809, he married a sister of Dr. Wil liam Ellery Charming. From 1811 to 1818 he resided in England and during these years pro duced some of his best pictures. Of these 'The Dead Man Revived' gained a prize of 200 guineas from the British Institute; and his 'Uricl in the
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