SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL FLINT, R.A., P.R.W.S. | Model on the Beach

Gladwell & Co., London, where purchased by the father of the present owner circa 1986

'In the infinite variety of temperament, vision, technique, achievement, despair and triumph recorded in the long history of art, Sir William Russell Flint takes a unique place…He was the greatest master technically of the elusive water-colour method of art – considering the quantity of his work, its versatility of subject, enchanting colour, sense of beauty and graceful idealism.’ Adrian Bury, Sir William Russell Flint 1880-1969, 1980, p.11