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John Gordon Bensusan-Butt (6 June 1911 – 22 August 1997) was an English landscape painter and author.
The son of Geoffrey C. Butt (later Bensusan-Butt) and his wife Ruth Bensusan, a physician, he was educated at Gresham's School, Magdalen College, Oxford, the Royal College of Art, and the Central School of Art and Crafts.[1]
His aunt Esther Bensusan was the wife of Lucien Pissarro, son of Camille Pissarro, and Bensusan-Butt grew up with their work around him, at the Minories, Colchester, now a museum and art gallery. From 1935, Lucien Pissarro became his adviser and artistic mentor, and the two men worked together at Cotignac and at the Minories, where Pissarro often stayed.[2] Bensusan-Butt exhibited at the Royal Academy[1] and was the art critic of the Essex County Standard from 1950 to 1966.[2]
He died in August 1997, while still living in Colchester.[3]