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Susanna Blunt
Canadian portrait artist
Susanna Blunt (b.
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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