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The Deluge 1804 † 
Looking East from Denny Hill, 1796-98. (CF. Sawitzky)
Generally, [[strikethrough]] speaking [[/strikethrough]] landscape painting and genre painting made their way [[strikethrough]] out [[7strikethrough]] slowly in the burgeoning United States. But the Classical Machines of Washington Allston [[strikethrough]] would [[/strikethrough]] received fulsome praise. [[strikethrough]] However, to be just and [[/strikethrough]] To show that the critic can transcend the limitations of his social environment, just as the artist can, we may quote Neal again. In 1823 he wrote ".....He is chaste and fine, but timid. this may be seen as well in his poetry, as in his painting. There is an Artificial heat in both. He wants passion; and even true greatness;--,,,,"
Again, the next year in Blackwood's. Neal wrote; "....There is a sort of artificial heat in some of his doing, much as if it were latent, elaborated with great care; not that sort of inward fervor which flashes into spontaneous combustion...."
Even so, Neal was glad to record that Allston had received $10,000 for Belshazzar's Feast. For [[strikethrough]] his [[/strikethrough]] Neal, besides having critical