Washington Allston

b. Georgetown district, SC, November 3,  1779 
d. Bridgeport, MA, July 9, 1843


Bibliography
"Death of  Washington Allston," Newport Mercury, 15 July 1843. 

Allston, Washington. Monaldi: A Tale. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1841.

Bayley, Frank W. and Charles E. Goodspeed. eds. A History of the Rise and Progress  of the Arts of Design in the United States, by William Dunlap. 3 vols. Boston: C. E. Goodspeed & Co., 1918. 2: 296, 299, 300, 301, 314, 315. 

Downing, Antoinette F. and Vincent J. Scully, Jr. The Architectural Heritage of Newport, Rhode Island 1640-1915. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1967. 471-450, 463, 468. 

Elliott, Mrs. Maude Howe. "Some Recollections of Newport Artists." Bulletin of the Newport Historical Society. Newport: Newport Historical Society. No. 35. (January 1921): 7, 8, 14-17. 

Flagg, Jared B. The Life and Letters of Washington Allston. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892. 6-11, 19, 20, 25, 36. 

Gerdts, William H. and Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. "A Man of Genius," The Art of Washington Allston (1779-1843). Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1979.5, 11-16, 22-25, 88, 164, 206. 

Hopkins, G.M., Atlas of the City of Newport, Rhode Island, Philadelphia, 1883. Plate 5. (Please note: the structure is not the original schoolhouse). 

Hopkins, G.M. City Atlas of Newport, Rhode Island. Philadelphia, 1876. Plate E. (Please note: the structure is not the original schoolhouse). 

Nord, Barbara K. The Flagg Family in New England: The Ancestry of Dr. Henry Collins Flagg. Austin, TX: Peripatetic Press, 1988. 55, 56. 

Peterson, Edward. History of Rhode Island. New York: John S. Taylor, 1853. 152. 

Powell, Dara L.D. The Flagg Family: An Artistic Legacy and the Provenance of a Collection. Pound Ridge, NY: Countess Anthony Szapary, August 1986. 11, 47, 54. 

Richardson, Edgar Preston. Washington Allston: A Study of the Romantic Artist in America. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1948. 

Ross, Arthur A. A Discourse, Embracing the Civil and Religious History of Rhode Island. Providence: H.H. Brown, 1838. 36. 

Sweetser, Moses Foster. Allston. Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879. 

The Biographical Cyclopedia of Representative Men of Rhode Island. Providence: National Biographical Publishing Co., 1881. 211, 212. 

Weaver, Raymond.  "Allston, Washington" in Dictionary of American Biography. Johnson Allen, ed. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. Vol. 1. 224, 225. 

Wilkins, Thurman. Clarence King. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1958. 8. 

Illustrations from:

Gerdts, William H. and Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. "A Man of Genius," The Art of Washington Allston (1779-1843). Boston: Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 1979. frontispiece.


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