Artist: William Allan (1782 - 1850)
Nationality: British
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Media: Paintings
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Biography:
Sir William Allan, a Scottish historical painter, was born in Edinburgh and worked there for most of his life. He traveled throughout Russia from 1805 to 1814 and began painting subject matters from his experiences abroad. These exotic paintings did not sell well, so Allan turned to Scottish subjects, notably illustrating scenes from the writings of Air Walter Scott.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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William Allan, Trout, 1973
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William Allan, Tomales, 1975
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William Allan, William Allan/ Recent Watercolors and Paintings/ the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco/ California Palace of the Legion of Honor/ 20 July through 8 September 1974, 1974
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Ward, Leslie Matthew (Spy), "The Gateshead Giant" (Mr. William Allan, M.P.), Statesman No. 623, from Vanity Fair, October 26, 1893, 1893
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James Peale - The Ambush of Captain Allan McLane 1803 oil on canvas Utah Museum of Fine Arts American
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Nathan Oliveira, To Edgar Allan Poe, 1971
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Allan D"Arcangelo, Landscape I, pl. 4 from Eleven Pop Artists, Vol. I, 1965
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Nathan Oliveira, [Plate] VII from the suite, To Edgar Allan Poe, 1971
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Nathan Oliveira, [Plate] I from the suite, To Edgar Allan Poe, 1970
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Nathan Oliveira, [Plate] II from the suite, To Edgar Allan Poe, 1970
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Nathan Oliveira, [Plate] III from the suite, To Edgar Allan Poe, 1970
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Nathan Oliveira, [Plate] IV from the suite, To Edgar Allan Poe, 1970
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Nathan Oliveira, [Plate] V from the suite, To Edgar Allan Poe, 1971
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Nathan Oliveira, [Plate] VI from the suite, To Edgar Allan Poe, 1971
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David Allan, Preaching in the Collosseum at Rome, 18th century
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Nathan Oliveira, Untitled from Edgar Allan Poe portfolio, 1971
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Nathan Oliveira, Untitled from Edgar Allan Poe porfolio, 1971
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Nathan Oliveira, Untitled from Edgar Allan Poe porfolio, 1971
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Nathan Oliveira, Untitled from Edgar Allan Poe porfolio, 1971
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Nathan Oliveira, Untitled from Edgar Allan Poe portfolio, 1971
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Nathan Oliveira, Untitled from Edgar Allan Poe porfolio, 1971
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Nathan Oliveira, Untitled from Edgar Allan Poe portfolio, 1971
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Nathan Oliveira, [Plate] IIIA from the suite, To Edgar Allan Poe, 1970
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David Allan, Scottish, 1744-1796 Frontispiece designed by Allan Ramsay, Scottish, 1713-1784 Poet Ramsay [Book] Allan
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Allan D"Arcangelo, Landscape III, plate 2 from the portfolio Eleven Pop Artists, Vol. III, 1965
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Nathan Oliveira, Untitled (Artist"s proof III A) from Edgar Allan Poe portfolio, 1971
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Charles Allan (C.A.) Gilbert, Scribner"s May (Life at Wellesley) by Miss Goadlau, 19th - 20th century
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Nathan Oliveira, VIIP, unpublished trial proof for [Plate] VII from the suite, To Edgar Allan Poe, 1971
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Allan Kaprow, untitled, plate on p. 101 in the book, 1¢ Life ([Bern: E. W. Kornfeld, 1964]), 1964
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Allan Kaprow, untitled, plate on p. 100 in the book, 1¢ Life ([Bern: E. W. Kornfeld, 1964]), 1964
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Antonio Frasconi, The Face of Edgar Allan Poe. With a Note on Poe by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Lois and Francis E. Hyslop Jr. ([New York: n. p., 1959]), 1959
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Antonio Frasconi, Untitled (Poe with Raven), fifth plate in the book The Face of Edgar Allan Poe. With a Note on Poe by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Lois and Francis E. Hyslop Jr. ([New York: n. p., 1959]), 1959
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Antonio Frasconi, Untitled (Poe in chair with cat ), second plate in the book The Face of Edgar Allan Poe. With a Note on Poe by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Lois and Francis E. Hyslop Jr. ([New York: n. p., 1959]), 1959
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Antonio Frasconi, Untitled (Poe"s Head), first plate in the book The Face of Edgar Allan Poe. With a Note on Poe by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Lois and Francis E. Hyslop Jr. ([New York: n. p., 1959]), 1959
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Antonio Frasconi, Untitled (portrait of Poe), frontispiece in the book The Face of Edgar Allan Poe. With a Note on Poe by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Lois and Francis E. Hyslop Jr. ([New York: n. p., 1959]), 1959
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Antonio Frasconi, Untitled ( Poe), sixth plate in the book The Face of Edgar Allan Poe. With a Note on Poe by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Lois and Francis E. Hyslop Jr. ([New York: n. p., 1959]), 1959
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Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley, San Francisco Rock Poster; Family Dog Productions, "Edgar Allan Poe," Daily Flash; Country Joe amd the Fish; Avalon Ballroom, 10/21-22/66, 1966
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Nathan Oliveira, (Poster) To Edgar Allan Poe: exhibition of trial proofs and published lithographs at The Stanford University Museum of Art, October 9-November 28, 1971, 20th century
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Antonio Frasconi, Untitled (Poe with patterned waistcoat),third plate in the book The Face of Edgar Allan Poe. With a Note on Poe by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Lois and Francis E. Hyslop Jr. ([New York: n. p., 1959]), 1959
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Antonio Frasconi, Untitled (bllurred forms),tenth plate in the book The Face of Edgar Allan Poe. With a Note on Poe by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Lois and Francis E. Hyslop Jr. ([New York: n. p., 1959]), 1959

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Frye Art Museum: Allan Rohan Crite: Artist-Reporter of the African American Community
Beyond depicting the particular events and spaces of the African American community, Allan Crite's imagery acknowledges spiritual values and traditions. A devout Episcopalian, the artist also turned his attention and talents toward sac...
Mason Murer Fine Art Gallery: Allan Eddy: Lost Sight Is Not Lost Vision
Allan Eddy, an award wining Atlanta College of Art graduate, winning the Forward Arts Foundation Scholarship in 1987, and hailed as the next Kandinsky, Matta or Miró, paints in abstract form. His art hangs in many collections, including Elton Jo...
Contemporary Arts Center: Custom Built: A 20-Year Survey of the Work of Allan Wexler
A catalog with essays by Aaron Betsky of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Christopher Scoates and Wexler is ...
Art Gallery of Ontario: Tissot and the Victorian Woman
Tissot began etching in 1860 with the art form's popular revival, but then stopped after 1861 and did not etch again until 1875.  Between 1875 and 1885, Tissot produced his most significant etchings.  In 1885, Tissot began work on the Bible illust...
Arlington Museum of Art: Two Landscape Exhibitions

Place: Day/Night features the works of two established Fort Worth painters not previously shown at the museum: Blagg and Woodson. For this exhibition of large paintings, curator Bounds has selected a new body of work by Blagg featuring night...
Talwar Gallery: Allan deSouza: people in white houses
Beckoning us with their enigmatic yet beautiful distant vistas, deSouza’s landscapes reveal their constituents of dressed up societal refuse. The choice of materials and titles impart irony and expose the immediacy of the works while connecting wi...
Royal Over-Seas League: Travel Scholarships 2000 for Artists
Eligibility citizens of the United Kingdom up to and including the age of 35 as at 31 December 2000. Media oil or comparable media, watercolour, drawing, mixed media, mono print or semi-relief. Free-standing work, multiple edition prints ...
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art: do it
Those charged with the execution of the artworks must exercise their interpretative skills, for, like a musical composition, each version of a work in do it is meant to be a uniqu...
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery: From Mini-FM to Hacktivists: A Guide to Art and Activism
Vicente says: “From mini-FM to hacktivists examines contemporary artistic and activist practices in the context of alternative media and provides the historical grounding for today’s internet collaborations. It illustrates a new paradigm of counte...
City Gallery: Sex in Deep Space: The Art of Dianna Cohen, Jason Eoff, Barrie Goshko, David Allan Peters, Michael Salerno
Dianna Cohens medium, the plastic shopping bag, may seem to be the farthest thing from a sensual magic carpet. In her hands, they become playfully asymmetrical and joyously multicolored constructions, offering tactile temptation as they lay fla...
National Gallery: Family Fortunes: Painting the Family
We are invited to consider what we mean by families, and what was meant at different times in history: in many of these paintings the father is absent and, in some, the painting was intended to serve as a photograph might today - a reminder, ...
Geoffrey Gorman + Associates: Ten Tips for Success - Join Geoffrey Gorman for this FREE one hour teleclass!
Tips include: 1) The two major mistakes that artists make when setting goals. 2) How to become your own marketing and publicity expert. 3) The artist's secret to successful networking. Teleclass Presenter: Geoffrey Go...
Contemporary Art Center: Above and Below: The Hypar Room An Interactive Exhibit for Children
Coinciding with a survey of Wexler's work, The Hypar Room allows children and families to investigate a space that seems puzzling,...
CARFAX: MANUSCRIPT EXHIBITION
Over forty works have been submitted, including those by: Willem Boshoff (multimedia, sculpture, art lecturer),
Wanas Foundation: TEN INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS AT WANÅS 2000
During the years 1987 – 1999 many different projects have been realized inside the barn as well as outside in the park. The focus is on sculpture and site specific installations. THE PARK houses several permanent works...
Cambridge Galleries: Translinear: 12 Canadian Artists
The concise premise of the exhibition is that painting has a particular visual language and that paintings exist to generate a state of awareness or understanding on the part of the viewer which is not limited by context, time or place. By bringin...
Wexner Center for the Arts: Julie Taymor: Playing with Fire
The magnitude of Taymor's creative vision will be captured through large-scale installations featuring scenic elements, puppets, masks, and costumes designed by the artist and her collaborators. V...
Geoffrey Gorman + Associates: National Marketing Expert Geoffrey Gorman Meeting With Artists and Arts Organizations in Europe
Please email Mr. Gorman’s office at ggaarts@aol.com or visit his web site to get more information about meeting with him while he is in Europe. Seven years ago, Gorman started GG+A, a consulting and career development firm that has worked w...
California Historical Society: At Work: The Art Of California Labor
The first overview of labor themes in California art over the last century, AT WORK includes work by photographers Dorothea Lange, Tina Modotti, Pirkle Jones, and Otto Hagel, painters Hung Liu and Diego Rivera, printmakers Rupert Garcia and ...
Sotheby’s Institute of Art: MA in Photography: Historic and Contemporary
As the only course in the United Kingdom to offer a postgraduate qualification in the history of photography, the course will also allow students a full investigation of the medium beyond the art gallery. The course will look at the medium’s...
Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum: POP CARS. America – Europe
The Lehmbruck Museum project will be the result of in-depth research, and will present groups of work on the topic from the Gottfried Schultz VW collection, the BMW Car Collection (Warhol), the DaimlerChrysler Collection (Cars by Warhol), the ADAC (G...
Stalke Gallery: New Paintings By Hans Peterson and Jonas Hvid Sondergaard
Peterson explores identification by combining figurative and abstract elements. Dispersed on the canvases one recognises a house or a human figure, while other areas remain undefined, coloured shapes. The recognisable objects are often borrowed fr...
Eiteljorg Museum of American and Western Art: After the Storm: The Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art 2001,
In only its second presentation, the biennial Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art awards $20,000 to each of five artists chosen by a panel of respected selectors and to a master artist named by the Eiteljorg Museum. The program inclu...
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art: Call for Artists: Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art 2003
The Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art, inaugurated in 1999, includes a major exhibition of work by the selected artists and a master artist named by the Eiteljorg Museum, purchases of their art for the Eiteljorg’s permanent collect...
Dia Center for the Arts: Playback: A Retrospective of Work by Robert Whitman
Pioneering in its use of media as art material, Whitman's performance work is among the most influential of its period. His involvement with multi-media performance-based works began in 1960 when, together with fellow artists Allan Kaprow, Jim ...
Philadelphia Museum of Art: Three Museums Join to Present Groundbreaking Survey of Van Gogh's Portraits
Taking this famous passage as a point of departure, The Detroit Institute of Arts, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Philadelphia Museum of Art will present Van...
Stedelijk Museum: Eye Infection: Work by Robert Crumb, Mike Kelley, Jim Nutt, Peter Saul and H.C. Westermann
Unlike Gerrit Komrij, Harry Mulisch and Queen Beatrix, who were invited to present their choice from the Stedelijk's collection, Braun has devised a free exhibition concept. He wanted to introduce in Holland a so far neglected movement in Ame...
ARTSPACE, Auckland: Bright Paradise: Tony De Lautour, Ian McDonald, Paul Morrison, Paul Seitsema
Curated by Allan Smith, Bright Paradise tracks narratives of exploration, discovery, travel, leisure, image collections and technologies within a matrix of loss and longing. The show includes around 30 artists, with 10 of these coming fro...
Frick Collection: The Draftsman’s Art: Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Scotland
The exhibition is accompanied by a presentation organized by The Frick Collection and offered at this venue only. Generously on loan from the National Gallery of Scotland from December 5, 2000 through January 21, 2001, is one of its most popul...
National Gallery of Art: Willem de Kooning: Tracing the Figure
"The Gallery presented in 1994 a major exhibition of de Kooning's paintings. Now, we are extremely pleased to be showing his drawings," said Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art. "They reveal de Kooning grappling with issues that ...

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