English Romantic Painter, 1775-1802
English painter, draughtsman and printmaker. With his rival, J. M. W. Turner, he extended the technical possibilities of watercolour and in doing so demonstrated that watercolours could have the visual impact and emotional range of oils. Although close in style throughout the 1790s, by 1800 Turner and Girtin were beginning to diverge: whereas the former dissolved forms to express his idea of Nature in a state of flux, the latter sought out a landscape's underlying patterns to convey his awe of Nature's permanence as well as its grandeur. Girtin's reduction of landscape to simple and monumental forms Related Paintings of Thomas Girtin :. | Lindisfarne | The collector of tithes | In the Scotch Borders | The White House at Chelsea | Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire | Related Artists: eric utterhielm 1662-1717 Hendrik Valkenburg painted An old kitchen with a mother and two children at the cauldron in 1872 Christian Berentz German, 1658-1722