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Sir William Russell Flint RA (4 April 1880 – 30 December 1969) was a Scottish artist and illustrator who was known especially for his watercolours of women.
Flint was one of the leading illustrators selected by Percy Bradshaw for inclusion in his The Art of the Illustrator (1917-1918) which presented a separate portfolio for each of twenty illustrators which was accompanied by a plate showing an illustration typical of Flint’s work and five other plates showing the work at five earlier stages of its production.[8] Flint’s coloured illustration shows one naked and one half naked young woman picking fruit on a sea shore.[9]
Flint was elected president of Britain’s Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours (now the Royal Watercolour Society) in 1936 to 1956, and knighted in 1947.[2]
During visits to Spain, Flint was impressed by Spanish dancers, and he depicted them frequently throughout his career.[4] He enjoyed considerable commercial success but little respect from art critics, who were disturbed by a perceived crassness in his eroticized treatment of the female figure,[4] clearly borrowing inspiration from similar works by Lawrence Alma-Tadema.[10]
Flint was also a published author of short stories.[citation needed] In 1965, a collection of his short stories were published as a limited edition of 500 titled Shadows in Arcady; for which Flint designed the graphical layout and the illustrations.[11] Previously, Flint’s story “The Angelus” had been published in The Times newspaper.[citation needed]
Flint was active as an artist and a writer until his death in London on 30 December 1969. (Text from Wikipedia – please support)
