GIRTIN, THOMAS

gûrˈtən, 1775–1802, English draftsman and watercolorist. He was apprenticed to an engraver but was employed, together with J. M. W. Turner, to make topographical drawings. Girtin was among the first to paint naturalistically in watercolor, abandoning the tinted drawing for a direct painting technique, using broad, strong areas of color. In this technique he radically influenced English landscape painting and anticipated the 19th-century watercolor. Characteristic among his drawings are Tynemouth, View on the Wharf, and Kirkstall Abbey (Victoria and Albert Mus.).

See study by T. Girtin and D. Loshak (1954).

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books on: Girtin Thomas  - 72 results

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The Drawings of Paul and Thomas Sandby in the Collection of His Majesty the King at Windsor Castle
Book by A. P. Oppae; Phaidon Press, 1947
Subjects: Artists--Great Britain--18th century, Sandby, Paul--1731-1809, Sandby, Thomas--1723-1798, Windsor Castle
...interest as showing the stage of development reached before Girtin or Constable or the nature poets in the appreciation of a commonplace...the hills of Hampstead. Similar in manner to No. 95. 186. Thomas Sandby. A Bridge of Magnificence over the Thames at Somerset...
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Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft; Liber Amoris; Characteristics
Book by A. R. Waller, Arnold Glover, William Hazlitt; J. M. Dent, 1902
Subjects: Fiction
...Lord Camelfords attempt . Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford...of his ship. Girton . Thomas Girtin 1775-1802 , water...Turner said, Had Tom Girtin lived, I should have...London in 1795. Knight . Thomas Knight d. 1820 . 224...
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Men of Art
Book by Thomas Craven; Simon and Schuster, 1931
Subjects: Painters, Painting--History
...353 , 429 , 431 , 444 successors of, 65 Girtin, 338 , 385 f. Gobelins, 412 , 469 Goethe...195 Hapsburgs, 304 , 310 , 317 Hardy, Thomas, 301 Havemeyer Collection, 457 Hawthorne...454 Huxley, Aldous, 76 , 210 Huxley, Thomas, 453 IBSEN, 478 Illustration, 40...
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Painting in England 1700-1850: Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon
Book by Basil Taylor; Virginia Museum of Fine Art, 1963
Subjects: Painting, English--Exhibitions, Painting--Private Collections
...picturesque landscape. 337338 GIRTIN Thomas 1775 London-London1802 The son of a ropemaker, Girtin became a pupil of the...Dr Thomas Monro 1759- 1833 has...an evening. Turner, Girtin, Cristall, De Wint and...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
Book by Ian Chilvers; Oxford University Press, 1996
Subjects: Art--Dictionaries, Artists--Biography--Dictionaries
...writing unreadably boring poems on aesthetics. Girtin, Thomas 1775-1802 . English landscape painter in...his friends greatness with the words If Tom Girtin had lived, I should have starved. Girtin made tours in various parts of Britain, and...
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journal articles on: Girtin Thomas  - 7 results

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Wordsworth, Turner, and the Power of Tintern Abbey
Journal article by Deborah Kennedy; Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 33, 2002
Subjects: Abbeys--Portrayals, Monasteries--Portrayals, Poetry--Authorship, Poets--Works, Wordsworth, William--Works
...Romanticism and the Forms of Ruin, Thomas McFarland examines this paradox...featured a picture of Tintern Abbey by Thomas Girtin as its frontispiece. While he...Angelo Rooker, Edward Dayes, Thomas Girtin, and Turner in the eighteenth...
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Cognition and Representation in Wordsworth's London
Journal article by Mark J. Bruhn; Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 45, 2006
Subjects: Cognition--Evaluation, London, England--Portrayals, Poetry--Criticism and interpretation, The Prelude, Or Growth of a Poet's Mind, An Autobiographical Poem (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation, Wordsworth, William--Criticism and interpretation, Wordsworth, William--Works
...giant contemporary Eidometropolis of Thomas Girtin." (8) Indeed, the poet himself...the kinds of realism practiced by Girtin and other visual and plastic artists...Poetical Works of Wordsworth, ed. Thomas Hutchinson and Ernest de Selincourt...
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Recent Studies in the Nineteenth Century
Journal article by Joseph W. Childers; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 38, 1998
Subjects: Nineteenth century--Bibliography
...Innocence and Experience"), and Thomas Taylors 1792 translation/edition...Griffins 1829 novel, The Collegians, Thomas Daviss Literary and Historical Essays...genius, a label given to Turner and Thomas Girtin. She maintains that the category...
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Centaurs Unnaturally Fabulous
Journal article by Carl Woodring; Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 38, 2007
Subjects: Animals, Mythical--Portrayals, Greek mythology--Portrayals, Mythical animals--Portrayals
...disparate creatures--unified, as Thomas Brown explained for us, in homogeneous...to "a late scandalous Poem" by Thomas Sheridan, would describe in comic...In a sketching club founded by Thomas Girtin, with centaurs apparently set as...
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Tennyson's "The Gardener's Daughter": The Exegesis of an Icon
Journal article by Lawrence J. Starzyk; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 32, 1999
Subjects: English poetry--Themes, motives, Icons--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Object (Aesthetics)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Romanticism--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Tennyson, Alfred Lord--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...their paintings poetic or other literary epigrams, when Thomas Girtin and the "Brothers" and, later, Turner conjoined in...1979. Wordsworth, William. The Poetical Works. Ed. Thomas Hutchinson. Revised by Ernest de Selincourt. London...
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Inventing the Landscape
Magazine article by Laura Wolff Scanlan; Humanities, Vol. 26, September 2005
Subjects: Art exhibits, Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-88), Painting, United Kingdom, Visual artists
...and enjoy the fag End of Life in quietness and ease." Thomas Gainsborough was already a well-established portrait...This is when J. M. W. Turner and John Constable and Thomas Girtin and John Sell Cotman and all the great English landscape...
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The Great Age of British Watercolours 1750-1880
Magazine article by David Peet; Contemporary Review, Vol. 262, June 1993
Subjects: Painting, British--Exhibitions, Tate Britain--Exhibitions, Watercolor painting--Exhibitions
...drawing, a new freedom visible particularly in the work of Thomas Girtin and Joseph Mallord William Turner (and their younger...as young men and were both pupils and proteges of Dr. Thomas Monro, a physician who was also a talented painter and...
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Roundup and About: July 2002
Magazine article; History Today, Vol. 52, July 2002
Subjects: Art--Exhibitions, Exhibitions--Calendars, schedules, etc., Museums--Exhibitions
...on the artist to discuss his life, art and legacy. Thomas Girtin: The Art of Watercolour July 4th to September 29th Tate Britain, Millbank London SW1P 4RG Tel: 020 7887 8000 Thomas Girtin (1775-1802), a key figure in the establishment...
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Bonington's Coastal Scenes
Magazine article by Donald Bruce; Contemporary Review, Vol. 291, Spring 2009
Subjects: Bonington, Richard Parkes--Criticism and interpretation, Bonington, Richard Parkes--Works, Turner, J.M.W.--Criticism and interpretation, Turner, J.M.W.--Works, Watercolor painting--Criticism and interpretation, Watercolorists--Criticism and interpretation, Watercolorists--Works
...sketches of John Cozens and Thomas Girtin. Cozens inventively enhanced...together. On the shortlived Girtin some of the magic of Thomas Bewicks countryside engravings...dramatic exaggeration, If Tom Girtin had lived, I should have starved...
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The Art of Art History
Magazine article by Michael J. Lewis; New Criterion, Vol. 22, November 2003
Subjects: Art: A New History (Book)--Reviews
...tradition. And he also calls attention to neglected watercolor masters, such as the tragic Thomas Girtin, about whom Turner said, "If Tom Girtin had lived, I would have starved." In such a wide-ranging account, there are the inevitable...
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newspaper articles on: Girtin Thomas  - 12 results

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DIFFERENT STROKES; Paul Sandby's Characteristically Precise Watercolours Brought Him Royal Approval -- but Who Could Distinguish His Hand from the Complementary Talent of His Architect Brother, Thomas? EXHIBITION OF THE WEEK
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), April 15, 2010
...Talent of His Architect Brother, Thomas? EXHIBITION OF THE WEEK. Byline...hand or will of his brother Thomas, then aged (according to his...frame in Nottingham. In 1796, Thomas Sandby was too ill to give his...sudden rise of young Turner, Girtin, Cotman and a demand for landscapes...
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Could This Be the Most Expensive View of Durham Ever?
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), July 14, 2010
Subjects: Auction firms, Sotheby's Inc.
...the foreground, was painted by Thomas Girtin, who died at the age of 27 in...castles and Lindisfarne Priory. Thomas Girtin was born in 1775, the same year...the foreground, was painted by Thomas Girtin and could be sold for pounds 300...
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Castle Works Feature in Show
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), August 26, 2009
Subjects: Fortification, Painters, Painters (Artists)
...another famous Northumberland landmark by the artist Thomas Girtin. Lindisfarne Castle, Holy Island, Northumberland...New York and was first shown publicly in about 1797. Girtin was born in London in the same year as Turner - the pair...
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HOLIDAYS: Brushing Up on Britain; YOUOVE SEEN THE FAMOUS PAINTINGS, NOW VISIT THE PLACES
Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), June 26, 2005
...what the subjects look like todayETH BAMBURGH CASTLE THOMAS GIRTIN (1797) ONE of the finest castles in England, Bamburgh...has been extensively restored since being painted by Girtin 200 years ago. Today itOs open to visitors from April...
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Preview; SYDNEY JONES WATERCOLOURS Victoria Gallery and Museum
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), December 29, 2009
Subjects: Museums
...Paul Sandby, JR Cozens, John Warwick Smith, Thomas Varley, Thomas Girtin, Anthony Vandyke, Copley Fielding, Peter de Wint...The exhibition includes an 18th century ink wash by Thomas Gainsborough, and one of five Turner watercolours...
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encyclopedia articles on: Girtin Thomas  - 3 results

 
 
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Girtin, Thomas
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GIRTIN, THOMAS gur t n, 1775 1802, English draftsman...Turner, to make topographical drawings. Girtin was among the first to paint naturalistically...Victoria and Albert Mus.). See study by T. Girtin and D. Loshak (1954...
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English Art and Architecture
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...dignity of his profession, shares with Thomas Gainsborough the place of honor in...Romney, Sir Henry Raeburn, and Sir Thomas Lawrence. Gainsborough is distinguished...Morland, John Robert Cozens, and Thomas Girtin. A type of painting that enjoyed...
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Landscape Painting
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Rococo saw a revival of ideal pastoral scenes in the works of Watteau and Gainsborough . The 18th-century Englishman Thomas Girtin was an important influence on future landscape painting. The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries England produced the...


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