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John Thirttle 1777-1839 Norfolk Church
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John Thirttle 1777-1839 Norfolk Church

19th century
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John Thirtle was a watercolour painter of the highest quality. He was born and lived his life in Norwich and is a member of the Norwich School of artists.

He was a frame maker in Norwich but found painting of more interest.

This is a typical Norwich Scene probably St Peter Mancroft. There are wonderful figure and carts through the street.

There is some fading to the sky and church which is not unusual for Thirtle.

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Timberhill Gallery has dated this Norwich School Watercolour Landscape to the 1800s.

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John Thirtle was a watercolour painter of the highest quality. He was born and lived his life in Norwich and is a member of the Norwich School of artists.

He was a frame maker in Norwich but found painting of more interest.

This is a typical Norwich Scene probably St Peter Mancroft. There are wonderful figure and carts through the street.

There is some fading to the sky and church which is not unusual for Thirtle.

Date of Manufacture

Timberhill Gallery has dated this Norwich School Watercolour Landscape to the 1800s.

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A sepia-toned nineteenth-century watercolour painting depicting a Norfolk street scene with timber-framed buildings and a faint church tower rising in the background.
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Archive I A sepia-toned nineteenth-century watercolour painting depicting a Norfolk street scene with timber-framed buildings and a faint church tower rising in the background.

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A sepia-toned nineteenth-century watercolour painting depicting a Norfolk street scene with timber-framed buildings and a faint church tower rising in the background.
John Thirttle 1777-1839 Norfolk Church
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A sepia-toned nineteenth-century watercolour painting depicting a Norfolk street scene with timber-framed buildings and a faint church tower rising in the background.
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The Norwich School was a regional British art movement established in the early nineteenth century, famous for landscape paintings that recorded the scenery and architecture of Norfolk using subtle tonal washes.

Artists typically used natural earth pigments mixed with gum arabic, applied over handmade rag paper or wove paper using soft squirrel or sable hair brushes.

Authentic pieces exhibit period-correct paper watermarks, natural age toning or foxing, subtle hand-drawn grid lines or graphite underdrawings, and tonal layering unique to early watercolour techniques.

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