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Anthony Blunt

1907 - 1983

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Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907 – 26 March 1983), styled Sir Anthony Blunt from 1956 until November 1979, was a leading British art historian and 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anthony Blunt has received more than 4,760,075 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Anthony Blunt is the 175th most popular historian (down from 121st in 2019), the 1,725th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,378th in 2019) and the 13th most popular British Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Anthony Blunt ranks 175 out of 561. Before him are Sozomen, Ernst Kantorowicz, Karl Krumbacher, Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, Howard Zinn, and Charles Diehl. After him are Michael Glykas, Joseph Klausner, Pei Songzhi, Steven Runciman, Martino Martini, and Antony Beevor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Anthony Blunt ranks 131. Before him are Yves Allégret, William Steig, August Eigruber, Enrique Líster, Víctor Paz Estenssoro, and Theodor Wisch. After him are Konstantin Rodzaevsky, Walter Frentz, Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov, Mihail Sebastian, Ramon Magsaysay, and Roberto Cherro. Among people deceased in 1983, Anthony Blunt ranks 80. Before him are Rebecca West, Ralph Richardson, Artemio Franchi, Bernard Vukas, Charlie Rivel, and Ivan Vinogradov. After him are Ferenc Plattkó, Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt, Rolf Stommelen, Jørgen Juve, Donald Maclean, and Ángel Labruna.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Anthony Blunt ranks 1,725 out of 8,785. Before him are Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom (1777), Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1870), Israel Kirzner (1930), Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862), Richard Williamson (1940), and Ian Callaghan (1942). After him are Gary Glitter (1944), Richard Aldington (1892), Roger Cotes (1682), Kingsley Amis (1922), Dido (1971), and Patrick Head (1946).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Anthony Blunt ranks 13. Before him are C. Northcote Parkinson (1909), Peter Burke (1937), Ian Kershaw (1943), Norman Davies (1939), Arnold Toynbee (1852), and E. P. Thompson (1924). After him are Steven Runciman (1903), Antony Beevor (1946), W. Montgomery Watt (1909), William of Malmesbury (1080), Robert Conquest (1917), and Tony Judt (1948).

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