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Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt (19 July 1901 – 8 January 1987), known simply as Wilfrid Blunt, was an English art teacher, writer, artist and a curator of the Watts Gallery in Compton, Surrey, from 1959 until 1983.

Life

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His parents were the Rev. Arthur Stanley Vaughan and Hilda Violet (born Master) Blunt, of Paris. Blunt was born at Ham in Surrey[1] and educated at Marlborough College, where he was a scholar, leaving in July 1920 for Worcester College, Oxford, where he was an exhibitioner, finally at the Royal College of Art.[2][3]

He was art master at Haileybury College (1923–1938)[2] and then at Eton College (1938–1959) and helped modify the hand-writing of British school-children, using the fifteenth-century Italian Cancellaresca ("Chancery") script[4] as a basis, although one of his students at Eton reminisced that after being taken off Art to improve his handwriting, Mr Blunt failed to make it any more legible.[5][6][3]

For his book The Art of Botanical Illustration in 1950[7] he was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal by the Royal Horticultural Society.[1] This book was considered the first comprehensive review of botanical illustration in Europe. Subsequent editions (by his co-author, Willian T. Stearn) provided coverage of more of the world and the twentieth century.[8]

The sixth international exhibition of botanical art and illustration held in 1988 at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, USA, was dedicated to Blunt. He had been a member of the Advisory Committee to the Institute since 1964.[1]

He died in Guildford on 8 January 1987.[3]

His brothers were the numismatist Christopher Evelyn Blunt and Anthony Blunt, art historian and spy for the Soviets.[3] His namesake Wilfrid Scawen Blunt was a distant family cousin.

Books

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References

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  1. ^ a b c White, James J.; Wendel, Donald E. "6th International Exhibition of Botanical Art and Illustration" (PDF). Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation. Retrieved 4 October 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Blunt, Wilfrid Jasper Walter" in Marlborough College Register 1843–1952 (The Bursar, Marlborough, 1953), p. 593
  3. ^ a b c d "Blunt, Wilfrid Jasper Walter (1901–1987), teacher of art and writer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/53211. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 21 June 2021. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. ^ http://www.fontscape.com/explore?6TG Chancery Scripts - Retrieved on 2007-01-08
  5. ^ Wilfrid Blunt, Dictionary of Art Historians. Retrieved on 2019-09-30
  6. ^ Wilfrid Blunt (1952), Sweet Roman hand: Five hundred years of italic cursive script, James Barrie, ASIN B0000CI87Z, OCLC 7078722
  7. ^ Blunt, Wilfrid; Stearn, William T. (1950). The Art of Botanical Illustration (First ed.). England: Collins.
  8. ^ "Book Review: The Art of Botanical Illustration". Botanical art and artists. Retrieved 4 October 2021.


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