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 ALL SAINTS Coysevox, Versailles Museum ; portrait of Boullogue, Kcole des Beaux Arts. Meyer, Kiiust. Lex., i. 513 ; Jal, 29. ALL SAINTS. See Trinity, Adoration ot ALLSTON, WASHINGTON, bom at 1 Waccamaw, South Carolina, Nov. 5, 1779, died at Cam- bridgeport, Mas- sachusetts, July 9, 1843. History and portrait paiuter, pupil in miniature painting of Ed- ward Malbone was graduated at Harvard College in 1800, and in 1801 entered the schools of the Royal Academy, London, of which his countryman Benjamin West was then president. In 1804 he went, with Van- derlyn and C. B. Leslie, to Paris, to study in the Louvre, and thence to Rome, where he spent four years. After a visit to Amer- ica, during which he married a sister of Dr. Channiug, he settled in London in 1811, and in the following year won a prize of 200 guineas from the British Institution for his Dead Man revived by Touch of Eli- sha's Bones, now in the Pennsylvania Acad- emy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia. This was followed by the Liberation of St. Peter by the Angel, which was taken to America in 1859 and presented by Dr. Hooper in 1877 to the Worcester (Mass.) Lunatic Asylum ; Jacob's Dream, Petwortli Gallery ; and Uriel in the Sun, Stafford House, for which the British Institution awarded him a prize of 150 guineas. The first sketch of Belshazzar's Feast was painted about the same time. He visited Paris again in 1817, was elected an A R A in 1818, and in the same year returned to America, and taking a studio in Boston began to work on his Elijah and Belshazzar's Feast. But, afflicted by the death of his wife and by ill-health from overwork, and removed from the art atmos- phere to which be had been accustomed, he painted irregularly and produced but few other pictures comparable to bin early per- formances. In 1830 bo married again and removed to Cauibridgeport, where he re- sided the remainder of his life. Among his other works are : Jeremiah (Yale College) ; Witch of Endor (W. H. Gardiner), Mirinm (F. Sears), Beatrice (Pres. Charles Eliot), Rosalie (N. Appleton), Amy Robsart (L A Lowell), The Valentine (Mrs. Geo. Ticknor), Boston ; fyialalro, Bride, Spanish Girl, Tus- can Girl, Evening Hymn, Lorenzo and Jes- sica, Flight of Florimel, Roman Lady, The Sisters. Allston also glinted landscapes and portraits, among the latter being Benj. West (Boston Athemcum), and Coleridge (Na- tional Portrait Gallery, London), and pub- lished volumes of poems and prose. Menio- rial Hist. Boston, iv. 392 ; Sandby, i. 399 ; Tuckemian, 13(J ; Knickerlx>cker Mag., xiv. 163, xxiv. 205 ; N. Ainer. Rev., L 358 ; Dem. Rev., xiii. 431; Atlantic Mag., xv. 129; Meyer, Kdnst. Lex., i. 513 ; Ware, Lectures on (Boston, 1852). ALMA PARENS, William Adolphe Hou- (jnereau, Geo. R. Blanchard, New York ; canvas, H 8 f t 8 in. x 5 ft. 9 in. A female figure seated, draped, with nine children, nude, grouped around her ; the one at left is the infant Si John. Paris Salon, 1883 ; sold for $20,000. Art Journal (1883), 331. ALMA-TADEMA, LAURENZ, born at Dronryp, Fries- land, Jan. 8, 183C. Educated at the gy m nasiuni of Lee u warden, where he con- ceived a passion for Egyptian and Greco-Roman ar- chaeology, which has had a great in- fluence on his art life ; student of art in Antwerp Academy in 1852 ; subse- quently pupil of Baron Henry Leys. Exhib- ited in Antwerp, 1801, Education of the