FLINT, Sir William Russell, PRA, PRWS, RSW, ROI, RE (1880-1969)
Biography
Well known Scottish watercolourist and dry point etcher of figures subjects and landscapes. He was born in Edinburgh where he was educated and where he was apprenticed to a firm of lithographers. Coming to London in 1900 he worked as an illustrator for a medical journal and then for The Illustrated London News. Having studied watercolour painting in the evenings at Heatherley’s, he turned to book illustration. He took up dry point in 1928, after trying and rejecting etching.
He worked extensively in Scotland and on the Continent. There is a considerable market in the so-called ‘Signed Artist’s Proofs’ (reproductions of his watercolours signed in pencil by himself).
