Sir William Russell Flint (4 April 1880 – 30 December 1969) was a Scottish artist and illustrator who was known especially for his watercolours of women.

[2] From 1894 to 1900 Flint was apprenticed as a lithographic draughtsman while taking classes at the Royal Institute of Art, Edinburgh.

He was an artist for The Illustrated London News from 1903 to 1909, and produced illustrations for editions of several books, including H Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines (1907 edition),[5] W. S. Gilbert's Savoy Operas (1909),[6] Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur (1910–1911)[7] and Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (1912).

[4] He enjoyed considerable commercial success but little respect from art critics, who were disturbed by a perceived crassness in his eroticized treatment of the female figure,[4] clearly borrowing inspiration from similar works by Lawrence Alma-Tadema.

[citation needed] In 1965, a collection of his short stories were published as a limited edition of 500 titled Shadows in Arcady; for which Flint designed the graphical layout and the illustrations.