This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  The following, submitted September 2003, is from Mike Warren:
John
S. Blunt was (1798-1835) was born in the Portsmouth, New Hampshire
area. His brief career consisted of portraits, landscapes, and
marine art, some with luminous qualities that gave special lighting
effects to his subject.
He also produced ship ornaments and miniatures in his early
years. Blunt was married in 1821, and in 1825, he opened an art
instruction school in Portsmouth. John S. Blunt moved to Boston
in 1831 and took up residence at 54 Cornhill.
Many of John S.
Blunt's family were seafaring people. His father was a ships
captain. Other family members were also captains. Some experts in
the field find his rendering of ships probably the most successful
element of his work. His later works are thought of as improving
as he matured. He was self taught and his canvases were not very
large. He painted on canvas as well as panel and were usually
oils.
John S. Blunt died aboard the ship Ohio on a voyage
from New Orleans to Boston in 1835, at the age of 37. He is
thought to have had the capability to have become a well noted painter
of marine and landscapes had he lived a full life.
His work is relatively scarce due to his premature death.
References:
American Marine Painting, by John Wilmerding, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, New York, second edition 1987
Two years of independent research with curators, collectors, auctioneers, and other experts in the field of art.
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Note from F. Christopher Tahk, May 2005:
Please be advised that the artist sometimes listed as "John Sherburne Blunt" has the
middle name of "Samuel", not 'Sherburne." Nina Fletcher Little
published this fact in a 1963 Antiques magazine note and John
Wilmerding gives it correctly as Samuel in his book American Marine
Painting
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