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Anthony Blunt

1907 - 1983

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Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907 – 26 March 1983), (formerly styled Sir Anthony Blunt from 1956 until November 1979), was a leading British art historian and a Soviet spy. Blunt was a professor of art history at the University of London, the director of the Courtauld Institute of Art and Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures. His 1967 monograph on the French Baroque painter Nicolas Poussin is still widely regarded as a watershed book in art history. His teaching text and reference work Art and Architecture in France 1500–1700, first published in 1953, reached its fifth edition (in a version slightly revised by Richard Beresford) in 1999, at which time it was still considered the best account of the subject. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anthony Blunt is the 215th most popular historian (down from 175th in 2019), the 2,248th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,724th in 2019) and the 20th most popular British Historian.

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Among historians, Anthony Blunt ranks 215 out of 561. Before him are Edgar Quinet, Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad, Moritz Cantor, Mahmoud Mohammed Taha, Guo Pu, and Robert Conquest. After him are Johannes Aventinus, Deborah Lipstadt, Annius of Viterbo, Gerardus Vossius, H. J. R. Murray, and Saul Friedländer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Anthony Blunt ranks 149. Before him are Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Sergei Kruglov, Violette Leduc, Parvin E'tesami, and Varian Fry. After him are Viktoria Brezhneva, Mihail Sebastian, Dixie Dean, Volmari Iso-Hollo, Ita Rina, and Isaac Deutscher. Among people deceased in 1983, Anthony Blunt ranks 100. Before him are Florence Owens Thompson, Johan Grøttumsbråten, Grigori Aleksandrov, Jerzy Andrzejewski, Yuri Levitan, and Fritz Machlup. After him are Shūji Terayama, John Williams, Vladimir Bakarić, Romain Maes, Lamberto Maggiorani, and Ada Blackjack.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Anthony Blunt ranks 2,248 out of 8,785. Before him are FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788), William Blackstone (1723), David Seaman (1963), Eric Woolfson (1945), Robert Conquest (1917), and Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (1775). After him are Robert Broom (1866), John Houghton (1931), Johnny Herbert (1964), Elizabeth de Burgh (1289), Andy Gibb (1958), and Edward Walter Maunder (1851).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Anthony Blunt ranks 20. Before him are C. Northcote Parkinson (1909), Steven Runciman (1903), Ian Kershaw (1943), Antony Beevor (1946), William of Malmesbury (1080), and Robert Conquest (1917). After him are H. J. R. Murray (1868), Tony Judt (1948), Clifford Edmund Bosworth (1928), A. H. M. Jones (1904), John Foxe (1516), and Timothy Garton Ash (1955).

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