Blue Bays

Artist Sir William Russell Flint (Edinburgh, Scotland, 1880 - 1969)

Mediumwatercolour on paper

ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings

DimensionsSight Size: Height: 23.5 cm, Width: 32 cm
Frame: Height: 43.8 cm, Width: 50.8 cm

AcquisitionBequeathed in 1939 by Robert Mitchell.

LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub

Object numberABDAG002336

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About MeSir William Russell Flint first studied at the Royal Academy School of Art in Edinburgh and served a six year apprenticeship at a large printing works, before moving to London, where he became a freelance artist and illustrator.

His career as a watercolour painter brought him honours, but his later hallmark style of depicting the semi-nude female form was unpopular with art critics, who considered his work commercial and somewhat gratuitous.

This early landscape demonstrates Flint's debt to Arthur Melville and shows the quality of his watercolour handling.
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Flint’s skilled blottesque technique (developed by Arthur Melville) is most evident in the blue bays – making the summer sea in this watercolour scene look very inviting.