Adrian Feint

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Adrian Feint (1894-1971) was an Australian artist most well known for his flower paintings and his work with bookplates. Born in Naranderra, NSW, he commenced his studies at Sydney Art School in 1911. After serving in Europe during the First World War, Feint returned to Australia. He studied plate etching from 1922 to 1926; woodblock-engraving from 1926 to 1928 (with assistance from Thea Proctor in 1927); and oil painting beginning in 1938, with Margaret Preston. In 1924 he became co-director of Grosvenor Gallery, Sydney, whose exhibitors included Thea Proctor, Elioth Gruner, Margaret Preston, Roland Wakelin, Roy de Maistre and George Washington Lambert. He worked for many years with editor Sydney Ure Smith on the journal Art and Australia, and also produced numerous covers for Smith's magazine The Home between 1927 and 1939. While publicly appearing as a bachelor, his life partner was John Winter. The pair met in 1930 and lived together for twenty three years in an apartment in Darnley Hall, Elizabeth Bay. Described as a 'remarkably handsome man but discreetly dressed', Feint died in Sydney in 1971.

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