Artist, Poet. After studying at Harvard, Allston was admitted to the Royal Academy in London. He practiced as a painter in Europe, where he met with great success and spent time with notable individuals like Washington Irving and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His wife died shortly after his first collection of poetry was published; a few years later, he returned to the United States and settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His work was exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum; it was the first exhibition dedicated to a single American artist. The neighborhood of Allston in Brighton/Boston, Massachusetts is named after him.
Artist, Poet. After studying at Harvard, Allston was admitted to the Royal Academy in London. He practiced as a painter in Europe, where he met with great success and spent time with notable individuals like Washington Irving and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His wife died shortly after his first collection of poetry was published; a few years later, he returned to the United States and settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His work was exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum; it was the first exhibition dedicated to a single American artist. The neighborhood of Allston in Brighton/Boston, Massachusetts is named after him.
Bio by: Midnightdreary
Family Members
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William Allston
1736–1780
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Rachel Eleanor Moore Flagg
1757–1839
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Anne Channing Allston
1778–1815 (m. 1809)
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Martha Remington Dana Allston
1784–1862 (m. 1830)
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Jane Doe Allston
1776–1776
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John Allston
1777–1777
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Mary Allston Alston
1778–1844
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William Moore Allston
1781–1844
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Elizabeth Allston Gibbes
1766–1806
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Benjamin Allston
1768–1809
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John Doe Alston
1770–1770
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Eliza Moore Flagg Wigfall
1785–1864
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Henry Collins Flagg
1792–1863
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Ebenezer Flagg
1795–1838
Flowers
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