12 Facts About Cyrus Cuneo

Cyrus Cuneo was born into an Italian American family of artists and musicians.

Cyrus Cuneo's parents were Giovanni and Annie Cuneo; his brothers Rinaldo and Egisto, and his son Terence Cuneo became artists.

Cyrus Cuneo trained as a boxer, becoming the fly-weight champion at the Olympic Club in San Francisco and his prize money, together with earnings from spare-time jobs, and the sale of sketches and to travel to Paris to learn painting.

Cyrus Cuneo began his studies in art while still living in San Francisco, at the Mark Hopkins Art Institute.

The Times said that Cyrus Cuneo had a fine physique and was a notable athlete, and as a boxer was famous not only on the Pacific slope, but in Paris and in London.

Cyrus Cuneo was living at 9, Rue Campagne, Premiere Montparnasse, Paris, in 1900 when he first exhibited at the Royal Academy.

Cyrus Cuneo showed two works in that year, both of them illustrations from King Lear by Shakespeare.

Cyrus Cuneo married fellow artist Nellie Tenison in London on 20 October 1903.

Cyrus Cuneo was a successful artist in terms of earning a living.

Peppin and Micklethwait state that Cyrus Cuneo worked with considerable panache in crayon or in black and white oil on board painted without preliminary pencil drafts.

Cyrus Cuneo was selected by Percy Bradshaw for inclusion in his 1918 The Art of the Illustrator which included a portfolio for each of twenty illustrators.

Cyrus Cuneo got blood poisoning after being accidentally scratched with a hat-pin at a dance.