Wilfrid Blunt
Curator, Author
1901 – 1987
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Who was Wilfrid Blunt?
Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt was an art teacher, author, artist and curator of the Watts Gallery at Compton, Surrey. He was educated at Marlborough College, Worcester College, Oxford, and the Royal College of Art. He taught art at Haileybury College and 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.
His brother was Anthony Blunt, Poussin expert and spy.
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- Born
- Jul 19, 1901
- Also known as
- Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt
- Parents
- Siblings
- Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Education
- Royal College of Art
- Marlborough College
- Worcester College, Oxford
- Employment
- Art Master, Haileybury College
(1923 - 1938) - Drawing Master, Eton College
(1938 - 1959) - Watts Gallery
- Art Master, Haileybury College
- Died
- Jan 8, 1987
Guildford
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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