WASHINGTON ALLSTON
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An eminent American painter, poet, and romancer; born at Waccamaw, S. C., Nov. 5, 1779; died in Cambridge, Mass., July 9, 1843. He graduated at Harvard in 1800; studied at the Royal Academy, London, and in Rome, and returned to Boston in 1809. He is the author of: "The Sylph of the Seasons and Other Poems" (1813); "Monaldi", a romance (1841), and "Lectures on Art and Poems" (1850). See his "Life" by Flagg.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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Platidiam
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