Angouleme

Original drawing

'"No.26 Rue du Cheval Blanc,Angouleme"'
Original drawing, coloured chalks
titled and monogrammed
Titled and signed on reverse by Sir William Russell Flint.
Image Size 11.75" x 8.75".

Sir William was admired by his contemporaries, and had a warm personality which he was eager to share with people of similar minds.
Francis Wighton Flint had been an artist on a more commercial scale and, Russell Flint started work in a printing factory, working there for 6 years, and gained much knowledge about the industry including many processes that were involved in producing pictures. Russell Flint of Scottish descent originally came from Edinburgh, 1880, his natural flair for using a watercolour brush soon caught the attention of his work colleagues and private collectors.

The early part of Russell Flint's life was spent studying at the college in Edinburgh, he then worked for 6 yrs. in the litho printing factory,
Russell Flint decided that a life and work in London was for him, and he an official medical artist, drawing with great precision, the human anatomy for the medical world.
At the begining of the century Russell Flint took a position in a London magazine, creating illustrations, this was a move that helped him to show his talents across the world
,due to the distribution of the magazine.

Sibylle Sueter, the daughter of an Admiral and Russell Flint were married the same year, Russell Flint's painting career was being much appreciated by both art critics and the
general public so much so that within 2 years he became an independant artist, and was the illustrator for many great classical books such as
The Odyssey of Homer, and The Tales of Canterbury Tales by Chaucer.

Throughout the first world war his position in the Navy was to oversee the airships as an Admiralty assistant. He travelled back to his native Scotland,
and using a piece of the very airship that had been in his charge during the war, he painted a watercolour called 'Hilda's Bonnet'.

At the end of 1918, Russell Flint's artistic flair began to be recognized internationally. He was able to travel across Europe, producing a portfolio of wonderful
watercolour paintings illustrating the gentle romantic countryside life on the continent.
A true professional and credit to his profession of watercolour painting, the work of Sir William Russell Flint has the recognition amongst the greatest and most admired art in history.
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The work of one incredibly talented artist, who painted the working lives of everdayday people in the 1960s is now of the geatest importance to both art collectors and and financial investors.
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