Cyrus Cincinnatto Cuneoartist • painterSan Francisco (Verenigde Staten) 1879-1916 Londen

Cyrus Cuneo was a well-known English artist-illustrator of magazines and books. He was born and raised in San Francisco, but moved to Paris at the age of 19 in 1898 where he took painting lessons at the Carlo Rossi Academy. He made his living by working as a professional boxer. In 1903 he moved to England, where he was a student of James Whistler and there he met the painter Nell Tenisson, whom he married. Cuneo then worked as a successful illustrator for Illustrated London News magazine. During the First World War, he made countless optimistic drawings of British acts of war. His son Terence Cuneo (1907-1996) became one of the British establishment's best-known portrait and figure painters.