Thomas Girtin grew up in London as the son of a wealthy family of craftsmen. When his biological father died, his mother married a pattern draughtsman, who trained young Thomas with a watercolour painter, where he coloured prints with watercolours. It is to Girtin's credit that watercolour was able to establish itself as a respected art form alongside oil painting. He is one of the most famous landscape watercolourists in England.
Already as a young man Girtin got to know his long-time friend, the painter J. M. W. Turner, with whom he attended an evening academy under the direction of his patron Thomas Monro. There they made prints of landscapes and topographic sketches. Turner and Girtin quickly recognized the manifold possibilities of watercolors. Girtin traveled through England North and Wales and made romantic landscape paintings. During this time she created impressive drawings such as "Findlater Castle, Banff", "Lichfield Cathedral", "Interior of Tintern Abbey" or "Stonehenge during a thunderstorm".
Between 1801 and 1802 Girtin spent five months in Paris and made several pencil sketches there, which he reworked into engravings on his return to London. Shortly before his untimely death at the age of 27 from asthma, Girtin completed the large-format panoramic painting Eidometropolis of the city of London, of which only preliminary sketches in the British Museum in London remain today.
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.jpg "The Land Gate, Rye, Sussex by Thomas Girtin")
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.jpg "Sketch for the Eidometropolis- Panorama, Great Surrey Street and Christchurch, Southwark by Thomas Girtin")
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.jpg "West Front of Peterborough Cathedral by Thomas Girtin")
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.jpg "Moorland View, c1800 by Thomas Girtin")
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.jpg "An Overshot Mill, Devon, 1797 by Thomas Girtin")
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.jpg "View of the Village of Chaillot from the Pont de la Concorde: pl.17 by Thomas Girtin")
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.jpg "Ruins of the Savoy Palace, London by Thomas Girtin")
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.jpg "The Ancient Charnel House, Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon by Thomas Girtin")
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.jpg "The Old Mill at Stanstead, Essex by Thomas Girtin")
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.jpg "Figure Costume Study of Edward VI in 1550 by Thomas Girtin")
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.jpg "The Old Bridge in Devon by Thomas Girtin")
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.jpg "Dunstanburgh Castle, Northumberland, in a Thunderstorm by Thomas Girtin")
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.jpg "Trees and Ponds near Bromley, Kent, c.1798 by Thomas Girtin")
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.jpg "The stepping stones on the Wharfe, above Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire by Thomas Girtin")
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.jpg "Twenty Views of Paris and Environs: View of St. Cloud and Mount Calvary Taken from Pont de Sèvres by Thomas Girtin")
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.jpg "Lane and Cottages by Thomas Girtin")
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.jpg "Plumpton Rocks, near Knaresborough by Thomas Girtin")
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