Quiet Branches and Coined Portraits: Susannah Blunt and the Family Around Her

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A personal stroll through two lives that share a name

I like to imagine names as doors. You knock — once — and two different rooms answer. In the hallway marked Susannah Blunt there’s a quiet, domestic light: a woman who moves through a famous family with the kind of discretion that makes itself invisible on purpose. In the gallery marked Susanna(n)a Blunt the light is deliberate and sculpted — portraits, gallery labels, and a coin that carries a monarch’s face into millions of pockets.

When I first put the pieces together I tasted two genres: the family drama that reads like an English mini-series (private dinners, an aunt who prefers to stay off camera), and the art biography that reads like a museum audio tour (dates, commissions, that miraculous 2003 coin). Both belong to the same syllables — Susannah Blunt — so I decided to walk both rooms, narrating in first person because these are the stories I chased, and they deserve a conversational guide.

The family tree that anchors a private life

There are four children in the immediate Blunt household — that’s a number worth noting because it frames the family dynamics: Felicity, Emily, Sebastian, and Susannah. Oliver Simon Peter Blunt and Joanna Blunt are the parents who, by all accounts, raised kids who found very different public paths: one sister became a literary agent (Felicity), another became one of Hollywood’s most watchable leading ladies (Emily), a brother took to the stage, and Susannah chose an intentionally low angle of light.

Who are the players, in a sentence each?

If you like celebrity family constellations — the sort of cast list that lets you imagine holiday dinners — this one is cinematic: Stanley Tucci is family by marriage, John Krasinski is married to Emily, and Hazel is the child who occasionally becomes a tiny headline by virtue of parents who live in the public eye. Susannah’s presence in that orbit, however, is not headlined; it’s the off-screen, necessary thing that lets the rest of the story have a calm backdrop.

The artist who put a monarch in your pocket

Then there’s the other door. The woman who signs as Susanna Blunt — often spelled with a single “n” in art circles — was born in 1941 and made an image that travelled further than most portraits: a likeness of Queen Elizabeth II chosen for the obverse of Canadian coins beginning in 2003. Numbers matter here: decades of practice, a public commission, and a single image reproduced in the millions. That is a kind of immortality most painters only daydream about.

Her career is a ledger of exhibitions, commissions, portraits and — recently — legal headlines that remind us artists are not only caught up in the aesthetics of representation, but in the business pains of showing and selling their work. She’s exhibited internationally; she’s been written about in numismatic and art press; and that 2003 coin is a cultural artifact — an artwork you touch every day without thinking.

Career, privacy, and money — the narrow lanes

It’s tempting to fill in Net Worth blanks with gossip sites and headline bait. I won’t do that. For Susannah — the private family member — there aren’t reliable public accounts of earnings or assets: she’s a figure whose public presence is defined by absence. For the artist, financials are likewise not neatly packaged into a public number; exhibitions, commissions, and legal actions tell part of the story, but they don’t make a tidy dollar sign. The honest line: no verified net worth figures are publicly published.

Numbers that do matter and that we can confirm or reasonably rest on: 1941 (artist’s birth), 2003 (coin portrait adoption), four (children in the Blunt sibling set), and one quiet truth — Susannah the private one is repeatedly described as “staying out of the public eye.”

Why this overlap feels like a movie beat

Names collide, reputations diverge, and the internet — bless it — juggles the two. I’ve watched it happen: a single name becomes a junction for two very different narratives. One is intimate and domestic, the kind of presence that makes a famous life feel steadier; the other is public and durable, the kind of achievement that places an artist into institutional memory.

If you, the reader, take anything away from this stroll, let it be this: some stories are crafted in the pressroom; others are painted slowly, then stamped into metal. Both are valid, both are human, and both live under the same syllables: Susannah Blunt.

FAQ

Who is Susannah Blunt?

Susannah Blunt refers to two public threads: a private member of the Blunt family (Emily Blunt’s sister) and a Canadian portrait artist (often spelled Susanna) known for a 2003 coin portrait of Queen Elizabeth II.

Is Susannah Blunt related to Emily Blunt?

Yes — in the family narrative Susannah is listed as one of four siblings alongside Emily, making her Emily’s sister and Hazel Krasinski’s aunt.

Did Susannah Blunt design the portrait on Canadian coins?

A portrait by the artist commonly spelled Susanna Blunt was selected for the Canadian coin obverse issued in 2003 and has been widely used.

What is Susannah Blunt’s public career?

There are two career tracks: the family member is private with no major public career listed, while the artist has an international exhibition history and notable commissions.

Are there reliable net worth figures for Susannah Blunt?

No — there are no verified, reputable public figures for net worth for either the private family member or the artist under this exact spelling.

Is there recent news about Susannah Blunt?

The artist has appeared in art press and legal reporting in recent years; the Blunt family member mainly appears in family biographical notes and avoids sustained press attention.