Boston’s Allston section is said to be the only community in the United States named for an artist---the great Romantic painter Washington Allston (1779-1843). This is of course is no small distinction. Allston “Self-Portrait, completed in 1805. By the 1820s this European trained painter was regarded as the greatest artist America had yet produced, having …
Local Historian North & South
From the old country to the new world, and from the mill towns of the northeast to the farmlands of the American south.
Local Historian North & South 