Girtin

Girtin had never even visited the area, yet could still produce a classic Lake District scene.

A passion for painting in the Lake District 2011

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.

Watercolour at Tate Britain - review 2011

Anyone who doubted that watercolour was able to achieve intimations of the sublime so central to the romantic project had only to look at what Girtin – who died at a melancholy 27 – achieved here.

Watercolour at Tate Britain - review 2011

Piper, the closest thing the neo-romantics had to a spokesman, does something similar in his 1944 study of rocks in Snowdonia, where elements of the sublime so evident in the work of Girtin have been reworked into a sinister commentary on the breakdown of all natural forms, including the human body.

Watercolour at Tate Britain - review 2011

Polwhele never repudiated him (see further Girtin 210).

Notes on ''Manilus to Peter Pindar':Satire, Patriotism, and Masculinity in the 1790s' 2006

Girtin points out that Wolcot may have suggested this role for himself and that Opie in any case included himself in this picture as well as the "fiercer" of the two assassins

Notes on ''Manilus to Peter Pindar':Satire, Patriotism, and Masculinity in the 1790s' 2006

Wolcot sued his publisher in 1801, Lord Eldon refused to grant the injunction he was seeking on the grounds that his works were "libellous publications" (qtd. in Girtin 219).

Notes on ''Manilus to Peter Pindar':Satire, Patriotism, and Masculinity in the 1790s' 2006

"According to Cyrus Redding [a relative] in what is possibly an exaggeration, at the height of this period of his fame between twenty and thirty thousand copies of his work were sold in a single day" (Girtin 113).

Notes on ''Manilus to Peter Pindar':Satire, Patriotism, and Masculinity in the 1790s' 2006

Girtin, who saw Nature as she is, and painted what he saw, delighted in this effect of sunlight and shadow.

Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

There were one or two delightful old pieces, a Rembrandt etching over the bureau, a Steinlen cat, a couple of original cartoons, and a lovely little Girtin.

Mystery Mile Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1930