A Landscape after Sunset
c. 1819
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 45.4 × 64.14 cm (17 7/8 × 25 1/4 in.) framed: 60.01 × 78.11 × 6.99 cm (23 5/8 × 30 3/4 × 2 3/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, William A. Clark Fund, Gallery Fund, and gifts of Orme Wilson, George E. Hamilton, Jr., and R. M. Kauffmann)
Accession Number
2015.19.96
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Washington Allston · 1779–1843
**Washington Allston** (November 5, 1779 – July 9, 1843) was an American painter and poet who pioneered the Romantic movement in American landscape painting. Born on a rice plantation along the Waccamaw River near Georgetown, South Carolina, he was the son of Captain William Allston, who died shortly after the Battle of Cowpens when Washington was a young child. His mother remarried Dr. Henry C. F...