Samuel Williams
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Samuel Williams

c. 1817
Washington Allston (American, 1779–1843) visual detail
ArtistWashington Allston (American, 1779–1843)
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Timothy Williams, Boston; Mrs. W. Pratt; Theodore Lyman, Brookline, Mass.; Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A....

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Timothy Williams, Boston; Mrs. W. Pratt; Theodore Lyman, Brookline, Mass.; Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman, Detroit; Kennedy Galleries, New York

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Golden Anniversary of Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10-October 16, 1966). A Cloudy Symbol: Washington Allston in Retrospect. Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL (organizer) (March 6-April 13, 1975). "A Man of Genius": The Art of Washington Allston. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (organizer) (December 11, 1979-February 3, 1980); Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (February 28-April 27, 1980). Boston, The Athenaeum Gallery: Annual Exhibition (1835), no. 60 Boston, Harding's Gallery, Exhibition of Pictures Painted by Washington Allston, (1839) no. 34 Boston, The Athenaeum Gallery, Annual Exhibition (1850), no. 62 Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Catalogue of Works of Art Exhibited: Pt. 2, Paintings, Drawings, Engravings, and Decorative Art, (1881) no. 203 Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, Washington Allston (1948), no. 110 Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, Collection in Progress (1955), no. 4 United States Information Agency, Tour of South America (1956-57), no. 5 United States Information Agency, Tour of Greece and Israel (1958), no. 8 Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Center, American Painting 1760-1960, (3 March - 3 April1960), p. 16. Tucson, University of Arizona Art Gallery, American Painting 1765-1963, (1964), illus. pg. 17, cat. no, 2. Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, Golden Anniversary Acquisitions, (1966), cat. no. 54 Coral Gables, Lowe Art Museum, The Paintings of Washington Allston, (6 March - 13 April 1975) cat. no, 17, discussed in text on pg. 9. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, "Man of Genius" The Art of Washington Allston (1779-1843), (1979) fig. 48, p. 71, discussed in text on pg. 86.

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Allston’s portrait of his London banker and business agent explores the experience of reverie. Williams looks off absently, perhaps inspired by the pictures in the book he holds. With its view of an Italianate landscape beyond the columns of this invented setting, the painting seemingly invites viewers to join the sitter in dreaming about faraway places.

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