Portrait of a Man
Washington Allston
c. 1810
Medium
graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet (irregular): 9.21 × 6.99 cm (3 5/8 × 2 3/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of William and Abigail Gerdts
Accession Number
2018.44.39
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...