{{Short description|British painter (1902–1988)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Adrian Maurice Daintrey''', RWA (1902–1988) was a British portrait and landscape painter.
==Life== Adrian Daintrey was born in Balham, <!--part of Wandsworth, -->London on 23 June 1902,<ref>The International Authors and Writers Who's Who, 1976, Ernest Kay, pg 138</ref> the youngest of three children of Ernest Daintrey, a solicitor<ref>Who's Who In Art 1974, Bernard Dolman, pg 111</ref> and his wife Lucy Mary (née Blagdon).<ref name=ODNB>{{cite ODNB |title=Daintrey, Adrian Maurice |year=2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/64240|last1=Hunter |first1=Sally }}</ref> He was educated at Charterhouse School, where he developed his artistic skills,<ref name=ODNB/> at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1920 to 1924,<ref name="Dolman1980">{{cite book |author=Dolman, Bernard |title=Who's who in Art |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IkfrAAAAMAAJ |year=1980 |publisher=Art Trade Press|isbn=9780900083082 }}</ref> and at the École du Louvre and L'Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris. He gathered a wide circle of friends including the artists Augustus John, Nina Hamnett and Rex Whistler. The novel, The Acceptance World by Anthony Powell novel, is dedicated to him. <ref>Jay, Mike. (2013) "Who Were the Dedicatees of Powell’s Works?" ''The Anthony Powell Society Newsletter.''50 (spring): 9-10. </ref>
He shared his first exhibition with Paul Nash at Dorothy Warren's Gallery in 1928. During the Second World War, he served widely abroad. After the war he held shows at his studio to promote his work. He worked for ''Punch'' from 1953 to 1961 as the art critic. He illustrated Elizabeth David's ''Summer Cooking'' and several of her other titles, sometimes working with John Minton. From the late 1960s he taught part-time at the City and Guilds of London Art School. His illustrated memoir ''I Must Say'' offers a vivid portrayal of London life among artistic and bohemian circles in the 1920s and 30s.<ref>I Must Say, Pub. Chatto and Windus, London 1963</ref>
He died at the Charterhouse almshouse where he had lived as a Brother from 1984 until his death.<ref>London: A History in Paintings and Illustrations, Stephen Porter, 2014, pg 171</ref>
==Exhibitions==
* South London Art Gallery * Michael Parkin Fine Art * Sally Hunter Fine Art
==Collections==
*{{Art UK bio}} * British Museum (1 drawing) <ref>{{cite web |title=Drawing |url=http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=733136&partId=1&searchText=Adrian+Daintrey&page=1 |publisher=British Museum |accessdate=28 November 2017}}</ref> * Imperial War Museum (9 works)<ref>{{cite web|title=Adrian Daintrey|url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search?query=Adrian+Daintrey |publisher=Imperial War Museum |accessdate=28 November 2017}}</ref> * National Portrait Gallery (1 portrait)<ref>{{cite web|title=Adrian Maurice Daintrey|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp72740/adrian-maurice-daintrey|publisher=National Portrait Gallery|accessdate=28 November 2017}}</ref>
==Legacy==
Hilary Spurling records that the central character in Anthony Powell's 1933 novel ''From a View to a Death'' is "a pushy young painter, an irrepressible opportunist of colossal nerve and cheek called Arthur Zouch, easily recognizable to friends as Adrian Daintrey." The character is invited to the Passengers' country house to paint family portraits, and in return he seduces the young women of the house until the father, furious, sends him out to hunt on a dangerous horse, and Zouch falls, breaking his neck.<ref>{{cite book |last=Spurling |first=Hilary |authorlink=Hilary Spurling |title=Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hvQtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT145 |year=2017 |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=978-0-241-25655-8|page=145}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.artnet.com/artists/adrian-maurice-daintrey/past-auction-results ArtNet] * [http://artist.christies.com/Adrian-Maurice-Daintrey--17626.aspx Christies]
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