Footnote
Artist, teacher, writer and curator, Wilfrid Blunt was born in Ham, Surrey. His brother was the art historian and spy Anthony Blunt. He began to paint in childhood, left Oxford University after two terms and studied in Paris at the Atelier Moderne under Othon Friesz and at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, where he had his first one-man show. Blunt entered The Royal Academy engraving school in 1922, where his teachers included Frank Short, and worked under Leon Underwood in his studio. He taught at Haileybury for 15 years, interrupted by a period studying singing in Germany and Italy; he sang professionally for a while. Blunt became art master at Eton College, 1938–59, then curator of the Watts Gallery, Compton, Surrey. His works showed in England and at the Paris Salon. He also wrote about two dozen books, including a witty, entertaining autobiography Married to a Single Life, 1983, and Slow on the Feather, 1986.
https://artuk.org/discover/artists/blunt-wilfrid-jasper-walter-19011987
'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)
