Wilfrid Blunt
Born 1901 · Died 1987
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.
Source: Wikipedia
Books by Wilfrid Blunt in order
Books by Wilfrid Blunt in the order they were published, from Desert Hawk (1947) to Linnaeus (2001).
- 1Desert HawkDesert Hawk1947
- 2The Art of Botanical Illustration
The Art of Botanical Illustration1950 - 3Japanese Colour Prints from Harunobu to UtamaroJapanese Colour Prints from Harunobu to Utamaro1952
- 4SebastianoSebastiano1956
- 5A Persian SpringA Persian Spring1957
- 6Lady Muriel
Lady Muriel1962 - 7Of Flowers & a Village
Of Flowers & a Village1963 - 8Cockerell
Cockerell1964 - 9IsfahanIsfahan1966
- 10Isfahan, Pearl of Persia
Isfahan, Pearl of Persia1966 - 11Omar
Omar1966 - 12John Christie of Glyndebourne
John Christie of Glyndebourne1968 - 13The Dream King
The Dream King1970 - 14The Compleat Naturalist
The Compleat Naturalist1971 - 15By Wilfrid Blunt The Dream King
By Wilfrid Blunt The Dream King1973 - 16The Golden Road to Samarkand
The Golden Road to Samarkand1973 - 17On Wings of Song
On Wings of Song1974 - 18Splendors of Islam
Splendors of Islam1976 - 19The Ark in the Park
The Ark in the Park1976 - 20In for a Penny
In for a Penny1978 - 21The Illustrated Herbal
The Illustrated Herbal1979 - 22Married to a Single Life
Married to a Single Life1983 - 23Slow on the Feather
Slow on the Feather1986 - 24Linnaeus
Linnaeus2001