13 Facts About Terence Cuneo

1.

Terence Tenison Cuneo RGI FGRA was a prolific English painter noted for his scenes of railways, horses and military actions.

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Terence Cuneo was the official artist for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.

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Terence Cuneo was born in London, the son of Cyrus Cincinato Cuneo and Nell Marion Tenison, artists who met while studying with Whistler in Paris.

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Cyrus Cuneo's elder brother Rinaldo Cuneo was an acclaimed painter in San Francisco, as was his youngest brother Egisto Cuneo.

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Terence Cuneo studied at Sutton Valence School in Kent, Chelsea Polytechnic and the Slade School of Art, before working as an illustrator for magazines, books and periodicals.

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Terence Cuneo served and became good friends with fellow artist Cyril Parfitt.

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Also during the War, Terence Cuneo was commissioned by the Foreign Office to produce anti-Nazi drawings and cartoons and an exhibition of his war works was held at the Palaquin Fine Arts gallery in 1942.

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8.

Terence Cuneo received more commissions from industry, which included depicting manufacturing, mineral extraction and road building, including the M1.

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Terence Cuneo was most famous for his paintings of engineering subjects, particularly locomotives and the railway as a whole.

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Terence Cuneo's work has been used in a variety of manners, from book jackets and model railway catalogues to posters and jigsaws and even Royal Mail postage stamps.

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Terence Cuneo's paintings have appeared on both Great Britain and Isle of Man stamps.

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Terence Cuneo was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1987 Birthday Honours and was appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the 1994 Birthday Honours.

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Terence Cuneo was cremated at the Randalls Park Crematorium, Leatherhead, Surrey, but no record has yet been entered in their Book of Remembrance.