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Great work done here by @PassagePress, quite inspired. Hope to see more underserved classics receive this sort of treatment

Avatar, painted by Henry John Lintott ca. 1916 Henry John Lintott (1877–1965) was born in Brighton and trained at the local school of art before continuing in London and Paris. He moved to Edinburgh in 1902 and became one of the first members of staff at the Edinburgh College of Art, where he taught for more than forty years. His influence was quiet and lasting—on Anne Redpath, William Gillies, John Maxwell, and others—without producing echoes of himself. He painted portraits, landscapes, and allegorical subjects with a slow, meticulous hand; the National Galleries of Scotland note the soft, dream-like quality of his manner. Elected ARSA in 1916 and later a full Academician, he showed regularly at the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Academy in London. His Avatar (1916) belongs to that year of his election: an elegiac canvas of ethereal figures bearing a shrouded warrior, seen by Wilfred Owen at Craiglockhart and called by him the finest picture then in the Edinburgh Gallery. The work sits comfortably with Lintott’s preference for unhurried, atmospheric gravity over fashionable formulas.

I try to actively avoid politics (it’s been contorted into merely marketing and entertainment), but heard someone say recently that the so-called right wing is more accurately described as ‘not the left’ and I’m inclined to think this is true—particularly within the spheres that I concern myself with, e.g. arts, music, and literature.