{{Short description|British Painter}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Flavia Irwin, Lady de Grey''' {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|RA}} (15 December 1916 – 1 August 2009<ref name=about/>) was a British painter and Royal Academician.
She was born on 15 December 1916 in London to Lieutenant-Colonel Clinton de la Cherois Irwin, M.C., of the Manchester Regiment, and his wife Everilda, daughter of Hatt Cook, of Hartford Hall, Cheshire.<ref>Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage 2003, vol. 3, p. 4065</ref><ref>Armorial Families, seventh edition, vol. 2, A. C. Fox-Davies, Hurst & Blackett Ltd, 1929, p. 1031</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6J8xDWDqOkEC&dq=The+International+Who%27s+Who+of+Women+2002%22+irwin%2C+flavia%22&pg=PA266|title=The International Who's Who of Women 2002|last=Sleeman|first=Elizabeth|publisher=Psychology Press|year=2001|isbn=9781857431223|pages=266|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/flavia-irwin-painter-and-designer-f35qf8qrxjs|title=Flavia Irwin: painter and designer|date=21 August 2009|work=The Times|access-date=2017-03-14|language=en}}</ref> Irwin studied at Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, and Chelsea College of Art and Design, where her teachers included Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland and Robert Medley.<ref name=":0" />
Irwin taught general design at Medway College of Art and the Royal College of Art, and ultimately became the head of decorative arts at City and Guilds Art School.<ref name=about>{{Cite web|url=http://www-art.newhall.cam.ac.uk/the-collection/by/artist/id/296/name/Flavia+Irwin+RA/artwork/445|title=About Flavia Irwin RA|website=New Hall - The Women's Art Collection|language=en|access-date=2017-03-14}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> She was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts 1996 and was also an Honorary Member of the Royal West of England Academy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?_IXACTION_=file&_IXFILE_=templates/full/person.html&_IXTRAIL_=Academicians&person=6387|title=Flavia Irwin, R.A.|website=Royal Academy of Arts {{!}} Collections|language=en-GB|access-date=14 March 2017}}</ref>
Her work is included in a number of private collections in both the UK and the US, including the Government Art Collection and the Walker Art Gallery.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artists/irwin-flavia-19162009|title=Flavia Irwin (1916–2009) {{!}} Art UK|website=ArtUK|language=en|access-date=14 March 2017}}</ref> She was regularly shown at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition.
She married Sir Roger de Grey in 1942 and was also known by her title of Lady De Grey. They had three children, including the architect Spencer de Grey. Irwin died on 1 August 2009.{{citation needed|date=October 2017}}
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