Wilfrid Blunt
Description
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
Linnaeus
"The life of Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), the man who gave living organisms two Latin names, is celebrated afresh in this newly revised and illustrated edition of the definitive biography. In his native Sweden, Linnaeus is revered by children as the "Prince of Flowers" and by adults as a great biologist, the author of classics on natural history, and, owing to his impassioned study of the sex life of plants, as history's foremost "botanical pornographer."". "This book gives a portrait of Linnaeus the man, charting his rise from a poor student at Lund University to Professor of Medicine at Uppsala and a founder of the Royal Academy of Sciences. Wilfrid Blunt's text is interspersed with passages from his subject's own writings - from riveting descriptions of adventures in the wilds of Lapland to a charming account of Sjupp the raccoon. Linnaeus's family life and his relations with pupils are explored alongside his scientific achievements. William Stearn's appendix on Linnean classification provides a concise survey of the basics necessary for understanding Linnaeus's work."--BOOK JACKET.
The compleat naturalist: a life of Linnaeus
The years of struggle 1707-1735 - In search of fame 1735-1738 - The prince of botanists 1738-1778.