Adrian Maurice Daintrey, RWA was a British portrait and landscape painter. He was educated at Charterhouse School, where he developed his artistic skills, at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1920 to 1924, 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. 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. From the late 1960s he taught part-time at the City and Guilds of London Art School. He died in 1988.