The Flight of Florimell is an 1819 oil painting by the American artist Washington Allston. It depicts a scene from The Faerie Queene by the Elizabethan Era English poet Edmund Spenser.Salmon p.12Palmer p. 23 Romantic in style, it is distinctly Gothic in tone with a frightened heroine being pursued on horseback.Carson p.39
Today the painting is in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts in Michigan, having been acquired in 1944.
References
Bibliography Carson, Kerry Dean. American Gothic Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature. University of Wales Press, 2014. Palmer, Allison Lee. Historical Dictionary of Romantic Art and Architecture. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. Salmon, Robin B. Brookgreen Gardens. Arcadia, 2006.