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Edmund Blampied (1886-1966)  Edmund Blampied was born in St Martin, Jersey, on March 30 1886, five days after the death of his father. Most of his childhood was spent at Augrès, Trinity, where he attended Trinity Parochial School.It was a result of a visit in 1899 to the studio of John Helier Lander that Blampied decided that he wanted to make a career as an artist. Winning free lessons at the art school in St. Saviour's Road then, with the financial help of a prominent townsman, going on to Lambeth School of Art. In January 1905 he joined the Daily Chronicle as an artist. At the same timer he was awarded a scholarship to Bolt Court Scool of Phot-engraving and Lithography. By 1912 he had left the Chronicle and set up in his own studio, illustrating novels and short stories. The 1920s were his most successful decade during which he became a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, exhibited in London to critical acclaim and was the subject of a monograph published by the Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum. In the 1930s he spent some time focussed upon the humorous side of his work, producing a folio of comic drawings published in New York in 1934 and a further collection in London in 1936. He returned again to Jersey in 1938, setting up home on the Bulwarks, St Aubin. During the Occupation the Blampieds moved out to Route Orange, St Brelade. When artist supplies became scarce he continued to work with a variety of make-shift materials including dry-points with a needle on a tobacco tin. In 1941 and 1942 he designed small denomination currency notes and a set of postage stamps for the States of Jersey. After Liberation Blampied continued to live, work and exhibit in the island until he died in August 1966, an unifinished painting still on his easel.
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- abridged from a text originally published by the Jersey Heritage Trust in their Jersey Artists series.