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 Coysevox, Versailles Museum; portrait of Boullogne, École des Beaux Arts.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 513; Jal, 29.

ALL SAINTS. See Trinity, Adoration of.

ALLSTON, WASHINGTON, born at Waccamaw, South Carolina, Nov. 5, 1779, died at Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, July 9, 1843. History and portrait painter, pupil in miniature painting of Edward 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 Vanderlyn and C. R. Leslie, to Paris, to study in the Louvre, and thence to Rome, where he spent four years. After a visit to America, during which he married a sister of Dr. Channing, 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 Elisha's Bones, now in the Pennsylvania Academy 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, Petworth 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 atmosphere to which he had been accustomed, he painted irregularly and produced but few other pictures comparable to his early performances. In 1830 he married again and removed to Cambridgeport, where he resided the remainder of his life. Among his other works are: Jeremiah (Yale College); Witch of Endor (W. H. Gardiner), Miriam (F. Sears), Beatrice (Pres. Charles Eliot), Rosalie (N. Appleton), Amy Robsart (I. A. Lowell), The Valentine (Mrs. Geo. Ticknor), Boston; Spalatro, Bride, Spanish Girl, Tuscan Girl, Evening Hymn, Lorenzo and Jessica, Flight of Florimel, Roman Lady, The Sisters. Allston also painted landscapes and portraits, among the latter being Benj. West (Boston Athenæum), and Coleridge (National Portrait Gallery, London), and published volumes of poems and prose.—Memorial Hist. Boston, iv. 392; Sandby, i. 399; Tuckerman, 136; Knickerbocker Mag., xiv. 163, xxiv. 205; N. Amer. Rev., 1. 358; Dem. Rev., xiii. 431; Atlantic Mag., xv. 129; Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 513; Ware, Lectures on (Boston, 1852).

ALMA PARENS, William Adolphe Bouguereau, Geo. R. Blanchard, New York; canvas, H. 8 ft. 8 in. × 5 ft. 9 in. A female figure seated, draped, with nine children, nude, grouped around her; the one at left is the infant St. John. Paris Salon, 1883; sold for $20,000.—Art Journal (1883), 331.

ALMA-TADEMA, LAURENZ, born at Dronryp, Friesland, Jan. 8, 1836. Educated at the gymnasium of Leeuwarden, where he conceived a passion for Egyptian and Greco-Roman archæology, which has had a great influence on his art life; student of art in Antwerp Academy in 1852; subsequently pupil of Baron Henry Leys. Exhibited in Antwerp, 1861, Education of the