Synopsis
Volume: v. 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1834 Original Publisher: G. P. Scott and co., printers Subjects: Art, American Art Artists, American Artists Art / General Art / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions Art / History / General Art / American / General Art / Individual Artist Art / Design / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 152 Alhton. CHAPTER X. " Number one" -- Born in Charleston, S. C. -- Early education at Newport -- Amusements of childhood and boyhood -- Mr. S. King -- Removed to Harvard College -- Mnlbone -- Allston's early pictures at college -- Studies Pine and Smy- bert -- Rrturns to Charleston -- Charles Fraser -- A little philosophy and poetry -- Mr- Bowman -- Allston and Malbone visit London -- West -- Reynolds -- Wilson -- Fuseli and the Milton Gallery -- Beechy -- Allston at the Louvre -- Colour- iets -- Theory of painting -- Pictures painted by Allston in Paris, 1804. WASHINGTON ALLSTON -- 1802. This name stands, to use Sully's expression, " number one" in the catalogue of American painters, or at least can only be placed second to that of his great master West, to whom, if inferior in facility of composition, he is superior in colour, and equal in drawing. Not only does Washington Allston stand proudly pre-eminent in the eyes of his countrymen as an artist, but they see in him the virtues of the man, and the accomplishments of the scholar and the gentleman. If he surpasses, in any of the attributes of a painter, the great man with whom we have associated his name, and compared his attainments, none more readily than himself will allow that the glorious distinction was achieved by help of circumstances even happier than those which...
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