Dimensions
15.00inch wide
11.00inch high
(38.10 cm wide 27.94 cm high)
Exhibition History:
Royal Academy
Paris Salon
Royal Watercolour Society
Condition:
Excellent
Description / Expertise
Landscape and figure painter in watercolour and oil; etcher and illustrator. William Russell Flint was born on 4th April 1880 in Edinburgh, son of Francis Wighton Flint, a commercial artist, and elder brother of Robert Purves Flint. He studied at Daniel Stewart’s College, Edinburgh, and at the age of 14 he was apprenticed to a firm of lithographers where he remained for six years. From the age of 15, he studied under Hodder at evening classes at the Royal Institution School of Art and was influenced by the work of Arthur Melville. He then painted in Belgium and Holland with his brother. In 1900, he came to London and was appointed to the staff of The Illustrated London News 1903-07. During this time he studied at Heatherley’s School in the evenings and became interested in book illustrations; his first work in this field being the illustrations to Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines. In 1910 he was elected ROI but soon resigned. He visited Italy in 1912-13, and at that time he took up etching which he subsequently studied at Hammersmith School of Art in 1914. He was elected ARWS in 1914, RWS in 1917, ARA 1924 (after hanging only three oils at the RA), RE 1931, RA 1933 and PRWS 1936-56. He won a silver medal at the Paris Salon in 1913 and painted extensively in Scotland, Spain, France, Italy and Switzerland, and spent much time on the Continent. He produced many etchings between 1928 and 1932. He is perhaps best known for his paintings of semi-nudes in French or Spanish settings but also painted many fine pure landscape watercolours of which this is a fine example.
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