Washington Allston
(1779 - 1843)

Washington Allston ARA 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. While his early artworks concentrate on grandiose and spectacular aspects of nature, his later pieces represent a more subjective and visionary approach.

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Scene from Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" (Katharina and Petruchio)
1809
Oil on canvas
70,5 x 78,4 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art
https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/83666