Cyrus Cuneo

Cyrus Cincinato Cuneo (1879–23 July 1916), known as Ciro, was an artist, born into an Italian American family of artists and musicians. His parents were Giovanni (John) and Annie Cuneo; his brothers Rinaldo (1877-1939) and Egisto (1890–1972), and his son Terence Cuneo (1907–1996) also became artists. The family lived on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco's Italian American neighborhood of North Beach.[1][2]

James Abbot McNeill Whistler in his studio by Cyrus Cuneo. Pencil and monochrome wash drawing, 1906. Whistler is reading from The Gentle Art of Making Enemies in Académie Carmen, surrounded by art students. Illustration for Whistler's Academy of Painting : Some Parisian Recollections by Cuneo in Pall Mall Magazine

He moved to Europe, on 20 October 1903 marrying Nell Marion Tenison (1881-1964), whom he met while studying with James McNeill Whistler in Paris. They moved to England and lived in London, where Cuneo worked on paintings, as well as illustrations for books and magazines.[3][4]

References
  1. Hughes, Edan Milton (1989). Artists in California, 1786-1940. San Francisco, CA: Hughes Publishing Company. p. 127. ISBN 0-9616112-1-9.
  2. Zimbardo, Tanya (2009). "CUNEO: A Family of Early California Artists – Exhibition Catalog". Museo ItaloAmericano. Retrieved December 30, 2010.
  3. Tom Coates (8 January 1996). "Obituary: Terence Cuneo". The Independent. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  4. "Cyrus Cuneo". Cuneo Society. Retrieved 6 December 2017.
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