Washington Allston
Washington Allston, "the American Titian," artist and author, was born at Brookgreen, Nov. 5, 1779. He studied in London, Paris, and Venice. He had a studio in London, 1811-1818; in Boston, 1818-1830; in Cambridge, 1830-1843, where he died, July 9, 1843. Allston was, said Coleridge, "a painter born to renew the 16th century."
22-11Georgetown County
Where it stands. Inside Brookgreen Gardens on Allston Circle Dr., Murrells Inlet vicinity
Thus falling, falling from afar, As if some melancholy star Had mingled with her light her sighs, And dropped them from the skies.
