Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt


Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt was an art teacher, author, artist and curator of the Watts Gallery at Compton, Surrey.
The son of the Rev. A. S. V. Blunt, of Paris, Blunt was 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.
He was art master at Haileybury College and then at Eton College and helped to start a revolution in the hand-writing of British school-children, using the 15th-century Italian Cancellaresca script as a basis.
For his book The Art of Botanical Illustration in 1950 he was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal by the Royal Horticultural Society.
His brothers were the numismatist Christopher Evelyn Blunt and Anthony Blunt, Poussin expert and Russian spy.

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