WASHINGTON ALLSTON BIOGRAPHY
WASHINGTON ALLSTON BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
ALLSTON, WASHINGTON (1779-1843). —Painter and poet, born in S. Carolina, became a distinguished painter, and also wrote a good deal of verse including The Sylphs of the Seasons , etc. (1813), and The Two Painters , a satire. He also produced a novel, Monaldi . He was known as "the American Titian."