Ethel Mary Flint
Other names: Batchelor-Flint (from 1948)
Born 1883
Died 26 January 1968 (Presumed)
Active: 1903 - 1951
Country of birth and death: England
Artist, teacher, council member of art society
Born in Woodhouse Eaves, Leicester where she was baptised on 3 August 1883. Ethel was the daughter of Jesse Flint (born c.1857 in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire) an organist and Professor of Music. Flint was an Art Pupil Teacher at the School of Art in Walsall in 1903 and continued her studies until 1911 although she was registered as a teacher in 1909. She worked at Lichfield School of Art from 1913 until her retirement in 1951, and was principal for much of this period. It appears she was also an art mistress at the grammar school (presumed to be in Walsall) as this was her stated occupation in 1939. Flint also served as chairman of the Library and Art Gallery Committee in Walsall. In 1965 a gallery was built as an extension to the existing Central Library and named in her honour. (This has since disappeared as the Garman-Ryan collection, donated by Lady Kathleen Epstein in 1973, was moved to a New Art Gallery constructed in 1999.)
This record includes information submitted by John Gallagher from the Lichfield Mercury, January 26 1968 and from 'The Walsall Annual Red Book', W.H. Robinson, Walsall, 1903, p. 176, and http://blackcountryhistory.org/collections/getrecord/GB148_1204_1_2_203/ (accessed 26 June 2019).
Institutional and Business Connections
Member of council Society of Staffordshire Artists
1945 - 1951
Personal and Professional Connections
Colleague of John Lea
1903 (Circa)
John Lea was an Assistant Master at the Art School while Ethel Flint worked as an Art Pupil Teacher.
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Art Student & Teacher'
Occupation given in 1939 England and Wales Register
'Art Mistress, Grammar School'
Sources
1939 England and Wales Register
2018
RG101/5326J/021/4 Letter Code: OONU
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2011
RG14PN17168 RG78PN1057 RD370 SD3 ED11 SN136
England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2007
2007
Name: Ethel M Flint
Birth Date: abt 1884
Date of Registration: Mar 1968
Age at Death: 84
Registration district: Walsall
Inferred County: Staffordshire
Volume: 9b
Page: 823
England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
2006
Name: Ethel Mary Flint
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1883
Registration district: Barrow Upon Soar
Inferred County: Leicestershire
Volume: 7a
Page: 160
Society of Staffordshire Artists Seventeenth Annual Exhibition, 1951
March 1951
p. 1.
Society of Staffordshire Artists. Autumn Exhibition, 1945
November 1945
p. 1.
Society of Staffordshire Artists. Eleventh Annual Exhibition, 1945
March 1945
p. 1.
Society of Staffordshire Artists. Fifteenth Annual Exhibition, 1949
March 1949
p. 1.
Society of Staffordshire Artists. Fourteenth Annual Exhibition, 1948
March 1948
p. 1.
Society of Staffordshire Artists. Thirteenth Annual Exhibition, 1947
April 1947
p. 1.
Society of Staffordshire Artists. Twelfth Annual Exhibition, 1946
March 1946
p. 1.
Citing this record
'Ethel Mary Flint', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib4_1220540529, accessed 04 Oct 2023]
