Biography
Edward Barnard Lintott (b. London, 1875 - d. 1951) was initially educated in London before continuing his studies in Paris at the Academie Julien and in 1901 enrolling at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. He returned to London and temporarily gave up painting to accept government appointments as art advisor and then secretary to the British Ambassador to Russia. After WWI, when he was involved in fund raising for Belgian refugees, he became Examiner in Art to the Board of Education. He published Art of Watercolour in 1926. In the 1940s he became an American citizen and exhibited at the Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA in 1942, and in 1943, Lintott had an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, Portraits of Children. In Britain his paintings are held in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff and the Atkinson Gallery; in the USA - in the Brooklyn and Metropolitan Museums, New York. A retrospective exhibition was held at the Clayton-Liberatore Art Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York, USA in 1970.
