Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

The influential critic and editor Rufus Wilmot Griswold dedicated his famous anthology The Poets and Poetry of America to Allston in 1842. landscape painting. C.

Washington Allston (November 5 1779 – July 9 1843) was an American painter and poet born in Waccamaw Parish South Carolina. He was well known during his lifetime for his experiments with dramatic subject matter and his bold use of light and atmospheric color. Allston pioneered America's Romantic movement of landscape painting.