American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 263
and Leslie among others. Although livingin London during the war of 1812, Allston suffered from no abatement of the love andappreciation of his English friends, some of his most important works being purchased byeminent noblemen, and soon after his return to America in 1818, he was elected an… … Study for Head of Astrologer in Belshazzars Feast. Drawn by Allston. gifted with higher imaginative powers and moved by loftier aims, Allston lacked the well-directed industry of Copley, and the more practical vigor, both of mind and body, possessedby Stuart. The earlier painter amassed a…
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