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Painter and writer, born in London, granddaughter of the artist Henry Cundell. She studied art at Blackheath School of Art, Westminster Technical Institute with Walter Sickert and part-time, 1911–14 and 1919, at the Slade School of Fine Art. Cundell was noted for her figure compositions, having won the Melvill Nettleship Prize for Figure Composition in 1914. Cundell exhibited at RA, NEAC, Goupil Gallery, SWA, NS and elsewhere, and her picture Smiling Woman is in the Tate Gallery. She was one of the founder-members of the NS in 1930, five years after her first one-man show, at Redfern Gallery. Travelled widely in America. Wrote and illustrated Unsentimental Journey, 1940. Lived at Dorney, near Windsor, died in London, and had a memorial show at RBA.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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