托马斯·吉尔丁出生在 沃克 在伦敦，《儿子的话去做brushmaker大学 胡格诺 下降.他父亲去世时，托马斯还是个孩子的时候，他的母亲则嫁给了一个沃恩，一个模式— 制图员 。吉尔丁学会 绘图 作为一个男孩（上课用 托马斯·马尔通 ），并 当学徒 到 爱德华天 （1763–1804），地形 水彩画 。他认为有了他的7年任期，虽然有师徒之间的冲突，未经证实的报道，甚至Dayes格尔丁囚禁耐火的学徒。当然天不欣赏他的学生的才能，他淡淡地写Girtin死后。

而一个青年，Girtin成了朋友 约瑟夫·玛罗德·威廉·透纳 和青少年进行颜色 打印 与水彩画。 吉尔丁展出 皇家学院 从1794。伊斯 建筑上的 地形草图和图纸建立了他的声誉，他使用的水彩画 风景 比如给他自己创造的信用 浪漫 水彩画。他去了几个写生游览，参观英国的北部，北威尔士和西方国家。1799，他获得了有影响力的顾客如 萨瑟兰夫人 ，和艺术收藏家George Beaumont先生。他是兄弟中的主要成员，写生社会专业艺术家和天才的业余爱好者。

1800、格尔丁嫁给了Mary Ann Borrett，一个富裕的16岁的女儿 城市 金匠和建立家庭在圣乔治排，海德公园，隔壁的画家 桑德比 。1801，他是一个受欢迎的客人在他的主顾乡村别墅等 哈伍德宫 和 马尔格雷夫城堡 ，并能够画收费20个金币，但他的健康恶化。在1801年底至1802年初，他花了五个半月 巴黎 在那里他画的水彩画，并取得了一系列的铅笔素描，他刻在他返回伦敦。他们出版的 在巴黎的二十视图及其周围地区 在他死后。在1802春夏，吉尔丁产生伦敦的景象，“eidometropolis”、18英尺高、108周，展出成功，年的脚。其自然主义处理城市光和大气是显著的。十一月，吉尔丁死在他的绘画室；原因是各种报告为哮喘或“心骨。”

格尔丁的早期山水画类似于第十八世纪的地形草图，但在以后的几年，他开发了一个更大胆、更宽敞、浪漫的风格，这对英国绘画有深远的影响。北方的风光，鼓励他去创造一个新的水彩调色板温暖的褐色石板灰色、青色和紫色。他放弃了undershadowing灰洗净，然后加入柔和的色块的实践，在强烈的色彩大洗的青睐，并尝试使用钢笔，棕色墨水和清漆添加更丰富的色调。格尔丁的早逝据说造成特纳说，“Tom Girtin住了我要饿死了”。

Thomas Girtin was born in Walker in London, "the son said to the brushmaker University of Huguenot descent. His father died when Thomas was a child, his mother married a Vaughan, a model draftsman. These learn drawing as a boy (Thomas Malton class), and as an apprentice to Edward day (1763 - 1804), the topography of watercolor painting. He believes that his 7 year term, although there is a conflict between master and apprentice, unconfirmed reports, even Dayes Gerding imprisoned refractory apprentice. Of course, the day did not appreciate the talent of his students, he wrote a light after the death of Girtin.
While a young man, Girtin became a friend of Joseph Marod William Tone and teen color printing and watercolor painting. [2] at the Royal Academy from 1794 gilding. The Islamic architectural sketches and drawings on the terrain to establish his reputation, he used the watercolor landscape for his own romantic watercolor credit. He went on a few sketches and visited the north of England, North Welsh and the west. 1799, he gained influential customers such as Mrs. Sutherland, and art collector George Beaumont. He is a major member of his brother, sketching social professional artists and amateurs.
1800, Goldin married Mary Ann Borrett, a wealthy 16 year old daughter and a family in St Georges City goldsmith row, Hyde Park, next door to the painter Sandby. In 1801, he was a welcome guest at his villa Harwood palace and patron Mar Greve castle, and can draw a fee of 20 gold coins, but his health deteriorated. At the end of 1801 to early 1802, he spent a half and a half months in Paris where he painted a watercolor painting, and made a series of pencil sketches that he engraved on his return to london. They published the twenty views in Paris and its surrounding areas after his death. In spring 1802, these produce the London scene, "eidometropolis", 18 feet high, 108 weeks, display the success in the foot. Its naturalistic treatment of urban light and atmosphere is significant. In November, these dead in his painting room; the reason is various reports as asthma or heart bone."
Gerding's early landscape paintings were similar to those of the eighteenth century, but in the years that followed, he developed a bolder, more spacious, romantic style, which had a profound impact on British painting. The northern scenery encourages him to create a new watercolor palette of warm brown slate gray, cyan and purple. He gave up undershadowing ash washed, then practice add soft color, strong color wash in favor, and try to use a pen, brown ink and varnish added more colors. It is said that Gerding's early death caused by Turner said, "Tom Girtin live I'm starving".