Cyrus Cuneo


Cyrus Cincinato Cuneo, known as Ciro, was an artist, born into an Italian American family of artists and musicians. His parents were Giovanni and Annie Cuneo; his brothers Rinaldo and Egisto, and his son Terence Cuneo also became artists. The family lived on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco's Italian American neighborhood of North Beach.
He moved to Europe, on 20 October 1903 marrying Nell Marion Tenison, 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.