CUNDALL, Charles Ernest

1890 - 1971

Charles Ernest Cundall was born at Cromwell Street, Stretford, Barton-upon-Irwell, Lancashire on 6 September 1890 and seems to have been baptised Charles Ernst, on 2 October 1890, son of Charles Hellyer Cundall (1848-16 November 1903), a Manila merchant, and his wife Elizabeth Mary Fletcher (1853-3 September 1932), youngest daughter of Johnson Fletcher, who married in Hong Kong Cathedral on 26 February 1885. In 1891, young Charles was living at Cromwell Street, with his parents, 42-year-old Charles and 37-year-old Elizabeth with three of four, sibling brothers, Philip Henry 4, Herbert Fletcher 3 and Walter Louis 1. Charles and his brother Herbert spent their early years in Manila, Philippines and the family spent some time in Australia. Charles was educated at Ackworth School, Yorkshire and at Manchester Grammar School and in 1907, apprenticed at Pilkington's Lancastrian Pottery & Tiles, painting lustre ware and then studied at the Manchester School of Art, obtaining a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in 1912. Whilst serving with the Royal Fusiliers in the First World War, in 1916 he was badly wounded in the right arm and had to learn to paint with his left hand before returning to the Royal College of Art in 1918, studying under William Lethaby (1857-1932) and he then studied at the Slade School Of Fine Art 1919-1920 under Henry Tonks (1862-1937) and Philip Wilson Steer continuing his studies in Paris. In 1923 he married artist Jaqueline Pieterson (24 May 1899-8 April 1984), a fellow student at the Royal College of Art. In the early 1920s, Cundall travelled widely in Europe including Italy, Sweden, Russia, and Spain. A painter of topographical subjects and townscapes being known for his panoramic pictures including 'Bank Holiday Brighton' (1933), which is now in the Tate Gallery and in 1933 elected a Member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. He had his first solo show at Colnaghi's in 1927 and exhibited at the Ipswich Art Club in 1933 an oil, 'The Loire Valley' but exhibited widely including at the Royal Academy 1918-1972 and Birmingham Art Gallery in 1929. At the beginning of the Second World War, appointed an Official War Artist. Charles Ernest Cundall died at Flat 4G, Airlie House, Airlie Gardens, Kensington, London W.8, on 4 November 1971.

Royal Academy Exhibits
from 14c Whitehead's Grove, Chelsea
1918 1163 Somewhere in France - drawing
1920 1169 Design for Stained Glass
         1295 Design for Stained Glass Windows
1921 1015 Design for a Memorial Window, Mersey Congregational Church
1923 70 Grand Andelys
         619 Les Andelys, Normandy
1924 729 Monaco - watercolour
1925 33 Edinburgh
         459 La Turbie
1926 428 Luxembourg Gardens
         742 Place Chateaubriand, St Malo
1927 86 Quai des Grandes Augusta, Paris
         317 The Lord Mayors' Show
         922 Canterbury - watercolour
from 25a Glebe Place, Chelsea, Southwest London
1928 274 Blackpool
         293 A Berkshire Garden
         554 Promenade du Midi, Menton
1929 91 Stevedores, Marseille
         95 The Boulogne Express
         291 St Giles' Fair, Oxford
1930 38 Stockholm
         442 Victoria Station
         676 Rochester
1931 110 Folkestone
         614 The Fish Market, Brighton
         711 Tobogganing at Hampstead
1932 366 Horse Fair, Stow-in-the-Wold
         479 Studios of Rome
1933 212 King's Mill, Huddersfield
         230 Bank Holiday, Brighton
         398 'The Skylark', Brighton
1934 364 Piccadilly Circus
         713 The Derby, 1933
1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972

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Works by This Artist