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William Russell Flint Collection
Throughout the page that follows, we have presented vintage images from the Scottish artist, William Russell Flint.
We have developed a range of Giftware that includes images reproduced from many of the 1st Edition plates in our collection to ensure the most accurate form, line and colour possible. We have utilised a high definition capture and reproduction technique for the images - in contrast to the low definition representation necessary for this website. The illustrations are available as cards, infants' clothing, T-shirts and unmatted, matted or framed prints (8x6", 10x8", 12x10", 15x10" and 30 x 20" images sizes). Pricing starts at US$4 for single Gift Cards (US$18 for select packs of 6) and 10 x 8" prints (double-matted and framed) begin at US$60. Further details on those reproduction images are available at the Giftware section of this site.
Should you wish to discuss an order, please contact us at ThePeople@SpiritoftheAges.com referencing your request with the Stock Code of the plate, or plates in question and a brief description (and rest assured, we do accept payment through PayPal).
In the meantime, enjoy browsing our selection of genuine vintage and antique plates.
The Artwork of William Russell Flint William Russell Flint (1880-1969) was a Scottish painter who has been referred to as the greatest watercolour artists of his time.
Flint was formally trained in art at the Royal Institution School of Art in Edinburgh and served an apprenticeship at a printing works before moving to London at the age of 20. Before becoming a freelance artist in 1907, Flint worked for the London Illustrated News from 1903.
Flint's illustrations for Limited Editions of a number of classic works are greatly collectable, including those for Mallory's Morte D'Arthur, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Homer's Odyssey.
His skills were recognised by the Royal Academy throughout the 1920s and 1930s with election to a variety of positions, including: Associate of the Royal Academy (1924); Member of the Royal Academy (1933); and President of the Royal Academy of Painters in Watercolour (1936).
In 1962, Flint also received a knighthood.
"A Romanticist Painter: W Russell Flint" (The International Studio, 1914)
In 1914, The International Studio, published an article by A L Baldry - "A Romanticist Painter: W Russell Flint" - accompanied by a number of colour images. Within the article, Baldry undertakes a survey of Flint's career to date, in addition to providing a critique of his artistic approach and technique. A portion of Baldry's article is reproduced below.
He is very definitely a painter with a temperament, an artist who looks at nature in a manner that is quite his own, and whose personal taste is amply apparent in every phase of his production. But, at the same time, he does not allow this display of his personal preferences to degenerate into a mannerism or to become simply a stereotyped trick which saves him from the exertion of thinking out new ways of expressing himself. He keeps his mind alive to fresh suggestions and allows the fullest scope to his receptivity; all that he does with the suggestions he receives is to bring them into agreement with the artistic convictions by which he is guided and to clothe them with the sentiment that seems to him to be appropriate.
When this sentiment is analysed it is seen to be a kind of delicate romanticism: there is in everything that Mr Russell Flint produces a romantic atmosphere which makes itself felt quite as much in the way he treats his material as in his choice of subject. His love of romance leads him often into the selection of motives from the life of past ages when people behaved picturesquely and veiled pageantry; but it colours quite as obviously his view of the modern world. It enables him to realise scenes from the age of chivalry with all the charm and pictorial persuasiveness that must - as we like to think - have distinguished them; but it helps him, also, to prove that there are romantic possibilities even in the life of our own times, and that the artist who is keen to recognise these possibilities need not revert to the past to find scope for his fancy.
Princess Mary's Gift Book, 1914
Hodder and Stoughton published Princess Mary's Gift Book in 1914 to raise funds for the British effort in World War I.
Flint's contribution - "A Holiday in Bed" - accompanied the story of the same name by J M Barrie (author of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens), a satirical guide for men to convince their wives of the need for them to spend time in bed with their wives tending to their every whim.
The Queen's Book of the Red Cross, 1939
Hodder and Stoughton published The Queen's Book of the Red Cross in 1939 to raise funds for the British effort in World War II.
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