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Wilfrid Blunt

Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt, known simply as Wilfrid Blunt, was an art teacher, writer, artist, and a curator of the Watts Gallery in Compton, Surrey, from 1959-83. Blunt was born at Ham in Surrey and educated at Marlborough College, leaving in July 1920 for Worcester College, Oxford, and finally at the Royal College of Art. He was art master at Haileybury College (1923–38) and then at Eton College (1938–59).

He was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal by the Royal Horticultural Society for his book The Art of Botanical Illustration in 1950, which was considered the first comprehensive review of botanical illustration in Europe. The sixth international exhibition of botanical art and illustration held in 1988 at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was dedicated to Blunt. He had been a member of the Advisory Committee to the Institute since 1964.

His namesake Wilfrid Scawen Blunt was a distant family cousin.

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Born 1901
Died 1987

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Born 1901
Died 1987

Subjects

History, Biography, Botanical illustration, Botany, Description and travel, Linne, carl von, 1707-1778, Pictorial works, Architecture, Herbals, Illustrations, Naturalists, Art teachers, Art, Islamic, Biographie, Exhibitions, Gay men, Histoire, Islamic Architecture, Islamic Art, Italic Writing, Penmanship, Social life and customs, Sweden, biography, Tulips, Animal housing

Places

Iran, England, France, Great Britain, Iṣfahān, Sweden, Algeria, Bavaria (Germany), Brazil, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, India, Isfahan, Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, London, Morocco, Oceania, Turkey

People

Carl von Linné (1707-1778), Ludwig II King of Bavaria (1845-1886), Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell (1867-1962), Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle Cockerell Sir (1867-1962), Wilfrid Blunt (1901-), Carl von Linné (1707-1778,), Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847), George Frederick Watts (1817-1904), Ismāʻīl Sultan of Morocco (d. 1727), John Christie (1882-1962), Ludwig II King of Bavaria, Mulai Ismail Emperor of Morocco, Muriel Evelyn Vernon Paget Lady (1876-1938), Pietro Della Valle, Pietro Della Valle (1586-1652), Schastions, fl. 1664. Viaggio di Francia Locatelli, ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn Muḥyī al-Dīn Amir of Mascara (1807?-1883)

Time

1516-1830, 17th century, 1830-

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Alternative names

  • Wilfred Blunt
  • Wilfrid: Blunt
  • Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt

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