^T is to Thomas Girtin and Joseph William Mallord Turner, more especially to the former, that the great change in the art of Water Colour Painting, from mere tinting with light washes to the employment of local colour, is due. Eighty years ago Girtin, by his free and bold pencil, his judicious ap-…
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