Colin Fforde Wyatt
Colin William fforde Wyatt
Colin William fforde Wyatt (1909-1975) was a British artist, mountaineer, skier, lepidopterist, botanist, writer, photographer, and lecturer.
Life[edit]
Wyatt was son of mountaineer and botanist James William Wyatt (1857-1939). He studied at the Academie Decluse in Paris 1926-28 and the Slade School of Art (1930-31) as well as Central School of Art and Grosvenor School of Modern Art. In World War II he served in the Royal Australian Air Force.[1]
Wyatt was committed to alpine sport and a well-known climber, ski-mountaineer, and a champion ski-jumper and ski-racer. He was a member of the Alpine Club, where he exhibited his paintings.[2]. Two of his paintings were exhibited at the Paris Salon 1928. He also exhibited in London, Australia, Switzerland and Canada.
He travelled extensively.
Wyatt was married twice and had a daughter. Wyatt lived in London, Australia, Canada and Surrey at different times in his life. He died in a plane crash in a remote part of Guatemala on 18th November 1975, after a trip to investigate a little-known archaeological site.
At his death he left a butterfly collection of 90,000 specimens, which was acquired by the natural history museum in Karlsruhe, Germany.
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