'Then the people brought her clothes'

Flint was commissioned to illustrate the 1910-11 Medici Society edition of Sir Thomas Malory's, Le Morte d'Arthur. The work won him a silver medal at the Paris Salon in 1913. He recalled: 'Medievalism was the vogue and when Lee Warner asked me to illustrate a four-volume limited edition of Malory's classic I leapt at the chance. The long tale is so rich in imagery, so stimulating and full of colour that I enjoyed my two-year job and was sorry when it ended - the devotional magnificence of some of the chapters had gripped me' (see Sir William Russell Flint, R.A., Royal Academy Diploma Gallery exhibition catalogue, London, 1962, p. 43).