William Russell Flint

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RA ROI
Russel Flint, ca 1909
Born4 April 1880
Edinburgh, Scotland
Died30 December 1969(1969-12-30) (aged 89)
London, England
NationalityScottish
Alma mater
Known forPainting, illustration
ChildrenFrancis Murray Russell Flint (England, 1915-1977)

Sir William Russell Flint

RA ROI (4 April 1880 – 30 December 1969) was a Scottish artist and illustrator who was known especially for his watercolours of women. He also worked in oils, tempera, and printmaking.[1]

Biography

Flint was born in

Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (1912).[3]

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.

Illustrations to Savoy Operas

Savoy Operas is a collection of four opera librettos by W. S. Gilbert that had been set to music by Arthur Sullivan, originally published 1909.

Princess Ida

  • "I can tell a woman's age in half a minute—and I do!"
    "I can tell a woman's age in half a minute—and I do!"
  • "Must we, till then, in prison cell be thrust?"
    "Must we, till then, in prison cell be thrust?"
  • Enter Princess, reading.
    Enter Princess, reading.
  • Enter the "Daughters of the Plough," bearing Luncheon.
    Enter the "Daughters of the Plough," bearing Luncheon.
  • Frontispiece to Savoy Operas
    Frontispiece to Savoy Operas
  • The Gate yields. Hildebrand and Soldiers rush in.
    The Gate yields. Hildebrand and Soldiers rush in.
  • "Though I am but a girl, / Defiance thus I hurl."
    "Though I am but a girl, / Defiance thus I hurl."
  • "Where are your rifles, pray?"
    "Where are your rifles, pray?"

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  2. ^ a b "Sir William Russell Flint". Sir William Russell Paintings and Drawings, Nottingham, UK. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  3. ^ a b Theo Cowdell, "Flint, Sir William Russell" Oxford Art Online
  4. ^ a b c Postle and Vaughan 1999, p. 76.
  5. ^ Sir William Russell Flint's illustrations for King Solomon's Mines (London: Cassell and Co., 1907)
  6. ^ "Savoy Operas: With Illustrations in Colour by W. Russell Flint", George Bell & Sons (1909)
  7. ^ Malory, Sir Thomas. Le morte Darthur. Vol. 4 vols., 1910–1911. London: P. L. Warner, publisher to the Medici Society; illustrations by W. Russell Flint{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  8. ^ "The Connoisseur Bookself". The Connoisseur: An Illustrated Magazine for Collectors. 51 (204): 223. 1 August 1918. Retrieved 12 August 2020 – via The Internet Archive..
  9. ^ "William Russell Flint: William Russell Flint and His Work: The Art of the Illustrator (Limited Edition Prints)". Illustration Art Gallery with The Book Palace. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  10. ^ Fantasy, Fashion & Affection - Jay A. Gertzman
  11. ^ Flint, W. Russell (1965). Shadows in Arcady : The Angelus, The Brass Plate, An Alley in Languedoc, The Devil at La Charité. London: Charles Skilton.
  • Postle, Martin, and William Vaughan. 1999. The artist's model from Etty to Spencer. London: Merrell Holberton.
    ISBN 1-85894-084-2

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