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Girtin

American  
[gur-tin] / ˈgɜr tɪn /

noun

  1. Thomas, 1775–1802, English painter.


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His first visit was made a year after Thomas Girtin had toured the area, and was probably made at his friend and rival's suggestion.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 25, 2013

What fascinated John Piper and Eric Ravilious in the interwar period was the way that painters such as Cotman and Girtin appeared so radically modern in their exploration of their chosen medium.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 5, 2011

A generous sampling from the B.M.'s great collection, including paintings by Gainsborough, Constable and Turner, as well as such lesser known masters as Thomas Girtin and John Sell Cotman.

From Time Magazine Archive

A few hundred yards farther down the river, Paris' crowded Pont Neuf, the city's oldest bridge despite its name, was painted by Girtin, Renoir, Pissarro.

From Time Magazine Archive

Turner himself used to say that his best academy was "the fields and Dr Monro's parlour"—where Girtin and other young artists met and sketched and copied the drawings in the doctor's collection.

From Six Centuries of Painting by Randall Davies

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