Coysevox, Versailles Museum; portrait of Boullogne, École des Beaux Arts.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 513; Jal, 29.
ALL SAINTS. See Trinity, Adoration of.
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ALLSTON, WASHINGTON, born at
Waccamaw, South
Carolina, Nov. 5,
1779, died at Cambridgeport,
Massachusetts,
July 9,
1843. History and
portrait painter,
pupil in miniature
painting of Edward
Malbone;
was graduated at
Harvard College in
1800, and in 1801 entered the schools of
the Royal Academy, London, of which
his countryman Benjamin West was then
president. In 1804 he went, with Vanderlyn
and C. R. Leslie, to Paris, to study
in the Louvre, and thence to Rome, where
he spent four years. After a visit to America,
during which he married a sister of
Dr. Channing, he settled in London in
1811, and in the following year won a prize
of 200 guineas from the British Institution
for his Dead Man revived by Touch of Elisha's
Bones, now in the Pennsylvania Academy
of Fine Arts, Philadelphia. This was
followed by the Liberation of St. Peter by
the Angel, which was taken to America in
1859 and presented by Dr. Hooper in 1877
to the Worcester (Mass.) Lunatic Asylum;
Jacob's Dream, Petworth Gallery; and Uriel
in the Sun, Stafford House, for which the
British Institution awarded him a prize of
150 guineas. The first sketch of Belshazzar's
Feast was painted about the same time.
He visited Paris again in 1817, was elected
an A. R. A. in 1818, and in the same year
returned to America, and taking a studio in
Boston began to work on his Elijah and
Belshazzar's Feast. But, afflicted by the
death of his wife and by ill-health from
overwork, and removed from the art atmosphere
to which he had been accustomed, he
painted irregularly and produced but few
other pictures comparable to his early performances.
In 1830 he married again and
removed to Cambridgeport, where he resided
the remainder of his life. Among his
other works are: Jeremiah (Yale College);
Witch of Endor (W. H. Gardiner), Miriam
(F. Sears), Beatrice (Pres. Charles Eliot),
Rosalie (N. Appleton), Amy Robsart (I. A.
Lowell), The Valentine (Mrs. Geo. Ticknor),
Boston; Spalatro, Bride, Spanish Girl, Tuscan
Girl, Evening Hymn, Lorenzo and Jessica,
Flight of Florimel, Roman Lady, The
Sisters. Allston also painted landscapes and
portraits, among the latter being Benj. West
(Boston Athenæum), and Coleridge (National
Portrait Gallery, London), and published
volumes of poems and prose.—Memorial
Hist. Boston, iv. 392; Sandby, i. 399;
Tuckerman, 136; Knickerbocker Mag., xiv.
163, xxiv. 205; N. Amer. Rev., 1. 358; Dem.
Rev., xiii. 431; Atlantic Mag., xv. 129;
Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 513; Ware, Lectures
on (Boston, 1852).
ALMA PARENS, William Adolphe Bouguereau,
Geo. R. Blanchard, New York;
canvas, H. 8 ft. 8 in. × 5 ft. 9 in. A female
figure seated, draped, with nine children,
nude, grouped around her; the one at left
is the infant St. John. Paris Salon, 1883;
sold for $20,000.—Art Journal (1883), 331.
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ALMA-TADEMA, LAURENZ, born at
Dronryp, Friesland,
Jan. 8, 1836.
Educated at the
gymnasium of
Leeuwarden,
where he conceived
a passion
for Egyptian and
Greco-Roman archæology,
which
has had a great influence
on his art
life; student of
art in Antwerp Academy in 1852; subsequently
pupil of Baron Henry Leys. Exhibited
in Antwerp, 1861, Education of the
