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.
Arthur Stanley Vaughan and Hilda Violet (born Master) Blunt, of Paris.
[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.
Subsequent editions (by his co-author, Willian T. Stearn) provided coverage of more of the world and the twentieth century.