TODAY IN CHARLESTON HISTORY

Posted By Bill Payer on Nov 5, 2020 | 0 comments


November 5, 1779 – Washington Allston Born

November 5, 1779 – Washington Allston Born
Washington Allston, self portrait

Washington Allston was born on a rice plantation on the Waccamaw River near Georgetown, South Carolina. He would grow up to pioneer America’s Romantic movement of landscape painting.

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