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Washington Allston was an American painter and poet, born in Waccamaw Parish, South Carolina. Allston pioneered America's Romantic movement of landscape painting. He was well known during his lifetime for his experiments with dramatic subject matter and his bold use of light and atmospheric color. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. November 1779 – 9. July 1843
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Washington Allston Quotes

“Titian, Tintoretto, and Paul Veronese absolutely enchanted me, for they took away all sense of subject. … It was the poetry of color which I felt, procreative in its nature, giving birth to a thousand things which the eye cannot see, and distinct from their cause.”

Washington Allston

Washington Allston, as quoted in The Quotable Artist (2002) by Peggy Hadden, p. 20

Color , Birth , Nature , Sense

“Thus falling, falling from afar,
As if some melancholy star
Had mingled with her light her sighs,
And dropped them from the skies.”

Washington Allston

Poem Rosalie

Star , Light

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