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He was born in Cahirconlish, Co. Limerick, Ireland, and was involved in various professions such as journalism and gold-mining in South Africa. In 1885 he befriended members of the Newlyn School and settled there a year later, moving to nearby Penzance in 1890.
His work consisted primarily of small oil panels in the plein air style, something he had picked up from the French Impressionists such as Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas. He was also fascinated by Japanese calligraphy and admired the work of the American painter James McNeill Whistler.
His most famous painting was The Rain it Raineth Every Day (1889; Penzance, Penlee House Mus. & A.G.). His daughter, Alethea Garstin, was also a painter.
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List of Works (http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/garstin_norman.html) (from Artcyclopedia)
She is associated with the Newlyn school, spending the summers of 1894 and 1895 studying under NormanGarstin, who, like Walter Osborne, had been a pupil of Charles Verlat in Antwerp.
Born in Cahirconlish, Co.Limerick, Garstin was the only child of an Anglo-Irish regular soldier, Colonel William Garstin, and Mary Hastings Moore, a relation of the writer George Moore.
Garstin exhibited with the Royal Academy and the Royal Hibernian Academy from 1883.
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