[2] Over the course of a long career at the Edinburgh College of Art, he influenced many leading 20th-century Scottish artists, including Anne Redpath.
[3][5] He taught there for more than 40 years, influencing many students, including Anne Redpath, John Maxwell, and William MacTaggart.
[1][5] The National Galleries of Scotland describe Lintott as "a painter of portraits, landscapes and allegorical subjects", whose method was "slow and meticulous" and his style "often soft and dream-like".
On Lintott's death in Edinburgh in 1965,[6] the Royal Scottish Academy mourned the loss of its oldest member, and "a very distinguished artist".
[1] They wrote:Henry Lintott was an artist of real distinction, and his portraits were outstanding, scorning the fashionable formulas of the moment, and for that reason perhaps not always winning the recognition they deserved.