Landscape artist and printmaker, born in Edinburgh, son of the artist Francis Wighton Flint and younger brother of the painter William Russell Flint. His full name was Robert Purves Flint. He was educated at Daniel Stewart’s College in Edinburgh and served in the Army in France in World War I. He was a member of RSW and an associate of RWS and was a prolific exhibitor, also showing at Leicester Galleries, Fine Art Society, Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and elsewhere. Lived for many years in Whitstable, Kent.