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Who is Susanna Blunt?
Susanna Blunt is a Canadian portrait artist and sculptor best known for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II on Canadian coinage from 2003 until 2023. It was the fourth and final depiction of Queen Elizabeth II on Canadian coins.
Susanna Blunt’s Background
Blunt was born in 1941 in Harbin, a city in the northern Heilongjiang province of China, above a bank to a father who worked in banking. The family moved to British Columbia when Blunt was a child and, at the early age of three, decided she would become an artist. Susanna studied painting in school and during the summer programs she attended at the Banff School of Fine Arts.
Before beginning a three-year study at the Byam Shaw School, Blunt spent a year focused on drawing and sculpting at the London Hammersmith School of Art and Architecture. After this course of study was completed, Susanna Blunt was awarded a scholarship to the Royal Academy, where she continued studying art and portraiture. The year before graduating from the Royal Academy, she had her first one-woman show in Calgary, Alberta.
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Susanna Blunt
Canadian portrait artist
Susanna Blunt (b. 1941) is a Canadian portrait artist who designed the most former portrait of Queen Elizabeth II on the former Canadian coinage, first issued in 2003. She was the second Canadian woman to design a portrait of a monarch the first being Dora de Pedery-Hunt.
Early life and education
She was born in Harbin, China, the daughter of an English banker. Blunt started her studies at the Banff School of Fine Arts as a young teenager. After finishing high school at Queen Margaret's School she had a year of private lessons in Victoria, British Columbia. She moved to London, England and did four years of art school at the Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting in Kensington, then won a scholarship to the Royal Academy for another four years, during which she won several awards and a silver medal.[1] The year before graduating she held her first one-woman show at the now-defunct Canadian Art Gallery in Calgary, Alberta in 1966,[2] and then returned to England to complete the work for her diploma. She r
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Of British descent, Susanna Blunt was born in Harbin, China but grew up in British Columbia, Canada. Starting with drawing at the age of 3, her decision was made at that time to become an artist. During three summers as a teenager, Susanna attended the Banff School of Fine Arts under Francoise Stegeman, in painting. One of her paintings was bought by the School and subsequently travelled across Canada in a group show. She took private lessons in Victoria with Frances Goward for a year before moving to London England where she attended the Hammersmith School of Art and Architecture for one year in drawing and in basic sculpture, before starting a three year course the Byam Shaw School.
Following this, she received a scholarship to the Royal Academy where she studied for a further 4 years in post graduate work, and won several more prizes, scholarships, and a silver medal, for drawings, portrait paintings and landscapes. The year before she graduated she had her first one-woman show in Calgary, Alberta.
Blunt was invited by the Royal Canadian Mint to join eight other artists in
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