Name Wilfrid Walter Role Author | Siblings Anthony Blunt | |
Died January 8, 1987, Guildford, United Kingdom Parents Arthur Stanley Vaughan Blunt, Hilda Violet Education Worcester College, Oxford, Marlborough College, Royal College of Art People also search for William T. Stearn, Anthony Blunt, Arthur Stanley Vaughan Blunt, Hilda Violet Books The Art of Botanical Illustration, The Compleat Naturalist, Linnaeus: The Compleat, Isfahan - Pearl of Persia, Of flowers & a village | ||
Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt (1901–1987) was an art teacher, author, artist and curator of the Watts Gallery at Compton, Surrey (1959–83).
He was educated at Marlborough College (scholar), Worcester College, Oxford, and the Royal College of Art.
He taught art at Haileybury College (1923–37) and Eton College (1937–59) and helped to start a revolution in the hand-writing of British school-children, using the 15th-century Italian Cancellaresca ("Chancery") script as a basis.
For his book "The Art of Botanical Illustration'" he was awarded in 1950 the Veitch Memorial Medal by the Royal Horticultural Society.
His brother were the numismatist Christopher Evelyn Blunt and Anthony Blunt, Poussin expert and spy.
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