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Thomas Girtin BIOGRAPHY
1775 Southwark, London, England - 1802 London, England. Known for: Watercolor landscape, architecure, and coastal scene painting.
THOMAS GIRTIN?. 1775 – London – 1802. Thomas Girtin, along with his exact contemporary JMW Turner (1775-1851), raised the status of watercolour painting from a minor genre to a powerful medium that... Read full biography
THOMAS GIRTIN?. 1775 – London – 1802. Thomas Girtin, along with his exact contemporary JMW Turner (1775-1851), raised the status of watercolour painting from a minor genre to a powerful medium that could rival works in oil. He was born in Southwark on 18th February 1775, the son of a brush- and... Read full biography
THOMAS GIRTIN?. 1775 – London – 1802. Thomas Girtin, along with his exact contemporary JMW Turner (1775-1851), raised the status of watercolour painting from a minor genre to a powerful medium that could rival works in oil. He was born in Southwark on 18th February 1775, the son of a brush- and rope-maker of Huguenot descent. In 1788 he was apprenticed to the topographical watercolourist Edward Dayes, who taught him the traditional method of watercolour painting: making a light pencil outline,... Read full biography
THOMAS GIRTIN?. 1775 – London – 1802. Thomas Girtin, along with his exact contemporary JMW Turner (1775-1851), raised the status of watercolour painting from a minor genre to a powerful medium that could rival works in oil. He was born in Southwark on 18th February 1775, the son of a brush- and rope-maker of Huguenot descent. In 1788 he was apprenticed to the topographical watercolourist Edward Dayes, who taught him the traditional method of watercolour painting: making a light pencil outline, laying in the shadows with grey wash, and adding local colours, generally in pastel tones of blue, green and pink. Girtin made finished watercolours of picturesque medieval ruins based on the pencil drawings of the antiquarian James Moore... Read full biography
THOMAS GIRTIN?. 1775 – London – 1802. Thomas Girtin, along with his exact contemporary JMW Turner (1775-1851), raised the status of watercolour painting from a minor genre to a powerful medium that could rival works in oil. He was born in Southwark on 18th February 1775, the son of a brush- and rope-maker of Huguenot descent. In 1788 he was apprenticed to the topographical watercolourist Edward Dayes, who taught him the traditional method of watercolour painting: making a light pencil outline, laying in the shadows with grey wash, and adding local colours, generally in pastel tones of blue, green and pink. Girtin made finished watercolours of picturesque medieval ruins based on the pencil drawings of the antiquarian James Moore (1762-1799). His first Royal Academy exhibit, Ely Cathedral, RA 1794 (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) was based on a sketch by Moore. That same yea... Read full biography
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THOMAS GIRTIN?
1775 – London – 1802
Thomas Girtin, along with his exact contemporary JMW Turner (1775-1851), raised the status of watercolour painting from a minor genre to a powerful medium that could rival works in oil. He was born in Southwark on 18th February 1775, the son of a brush- and rope-maker of Huguenot descent. In 1788 he was apprenticed to the topographical watercolourist Edward Dayes, who taught him the traditional method of watercolour painting: making a light pencil outline, laying in the shadows with grey wash, and adding local colours, generally in pastel tones of blue, green and pink.
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