John Thirtle, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

John Thirtle

Date of Birth: 22-Jun-1777

Place of Birth: Norwich, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 30-Sep-1839

Profession: landscape painter, miniature painter

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About John Thirtle

  • John Thirtle (22 June 1777 – 30 September 1839) was an English watercolour artist.
  • Born in Norwich, where he lived for most of his life, Thirtle was a leading member of the Norwich School of painters, whose paintings of Norwich are considered to be outstanding in the history of watercolour painting.
  • Thirtle was apprenticed to a London frame maker before returning home to Norwich.
  • There he set up a successful frame-making business, whilst continuing to paint as well as working as a drawing-master, a printseller and a looking glass maker.
  • In 1812 he married Elizabeth Miles, the sister-in-law of John Sell Cotman.
  • He suffered from tuberculosis for much of his life, and his worsening health reduced his artistic output up to his death in 1839.
  • He produced relatively little: his unpublished manuscript Treatise on Watercolour was probably for his own use, and he exhibited fewer than a hundred works of art.
  • He was a member of the Norwich Society of Artists and for a time its vice-president, but in 1816 he was one of a number of artists who seceded from the Society to form a separate association, which dissolved after only three years.
  • The majority of Thirtle's watercolours are of Norwich and the surrounding Norfolk countryside, many being riverside scenes.
  • His style, which was influenced by Thomas Girtin, Crome and (to a lesser extent) John Sell Cotman, was both technically accomplished and individual.
  • His earlier landscapes were painted with a restricted range of buffs, blues and grey-browns, but he later developed a brilliancy of colour, producing works that included angular block forms.
  • Unhappily, the quality of several of his watercolours has deteriorated, due to the fading of a particular indigo pigment that he used extensively and to great effect.

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