About the Artwork
Italian Shepherd Boy
1819
Washington Allston
1779-1843
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 21 × 17 inches (53.3 × 43.2 cm) Framed: 25 3/16 × 21 1/8 × 2 7/8 inches (64 × 53.7 × 7.3 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr.
44.166
Public Domain
Markings
Signed and dated, on back of canvas: W. Allston, 1819
Provenance
by September 1825, possibly Nathaniel Amroy. before 1839, possibly Robert Gilmore (Baltimore, Maryland, USA) [as Beattie's Minstrel]. 1944, William Gibson Borland family (Concord, Massachusetts, USA)
1944, dealer, Victor Spark (New York, New York, USA)
1944-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Letter from Allston to William Collins, May 18, 1921. The Massachusetts Historical Society, Dana Family Papers.
Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer. “Remarks on Allston’s Paintings.” Last Evening with Allston and Other Papers. Boston, 1839, p. 7.
Fuller, Margaret. “A Record of Impressions Produced by the Exhibition of Mr. Allston’s Pictures in the Summer of 1839.” Dial, 1 (July 1840): p. 79.
Sweetser, Moses Foster. Allston. Boston, 1879, p. 190.
Dunlap, William. A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States, Volume 2. Boston, 1918, p. 461.
Richardson, Edgar P. “Three Late Pictures by Allston.” Bulletin of the DIA, 24, 1 (1944): p. 3 (ill.).
______________. American Romantic Painting. New York, 1944, p. 5.
______________. Washington Allston: A Study of the Romantic Artist in America. Chicago, 1948, pp. 139, 141, 148, and 207 (pl. 48).
Johns, Elizabeth. Washington Allston: Method, Imagination, and Reality.” Winterthur Portfolio, 12 (1977): p. 12.
____________. “Washington Allston and Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Remarkable Relationship.” Journal of the Archives of American Art, 19, 3 (1979): p. 122.
Wolf, Bryan Jay. Romantic Re-Vision: Culture and Consciousness in Nineteenth-Century American Painting and Literature. Chicago, 1982, pp. 74-75 (ill.).
Crean, Hugh R. The Influence of William Wordsworth’s Concept of Memory on Washington Allston’s Later Works.” Arts Magazine, 57 (June 1983): p. 61.
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Washington Allston, Italian Shepherd Boy, 1819, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr., 44.166.
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