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Washington Allston
(Born: November 5, 1779 - Died: July 9, 1843)
American painter and poet. He grew up in Newport, RI, and graduated from Harvard in 1800. The following year, he became a student at the Royal Academy in London, and three years later studied the old masters in Rome. He returned to Boston in 1809. His first wife was the sister of William Ellery Channing, and his second wife was the sister of Richard H. Dana.
- Notice from “Autography”
- “W. Allston” (“An Appendix of Autographs”) — January 1842 — Graham’s Magazine
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- Duyckinck, E. A. and G. L., “Washington Allston,” Cyclopedia of American Literature, New York: Charles Scribner, 1856, 2:13-19
- Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.
- Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches) , Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978. (Second printing 1979)
- Thomas, Dwight and David K. Jackson, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849, Boston: G. K. Hall & Sons, 1987.
- Wilson, James Grant and John Fiske, eds., Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1889, 1:58.
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