Charles Cundall RA
1890-1971
Charles Cundall
Charles Ernest Cundall (1890-1971) was an English painter of topographical subjects and townscapes, best known for his large panoramic canvasses.
Born in Stratford, Lancashire, Cundall worked as a designer for Pilkington’s Pottery Company under Gordon Forsyth before studying at the Manchester School of Art. In 1912, Cundall won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art. After WW1, he attended Slade School of Fine Art under the tutelage of Philip Wilson Steer.
Cundall listed his influences as Constable, Gainsborough and Stubbs; Renoir and the Impressionists; Rembrandt, Brueghel and the Dutch School. He was a member of the New English Art Club and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and was a prolific RA exhibitor, exhibiting every year from 1923-1970. London’s Colnaghi gallery hosted the artist’s first solo show in 1927.
Like many of his peers, Cundall was an official War Artist in WWII, during which he was elected a Royal Academician in 1944. Cundall’s work is held in the Tate Gallery and the Imperial War Museum.
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The Colosseum, Rome
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“Cundall was not interested in theory and never felt the need to look inwards and bare his soul to his audience. Instead, he looked with great attention outwards, to the world around him, to its varied surfaces and textures, and to the structures behind it.”