Nora Lucy Mowbray Cundell

Nora Lucy Mowbray Cundell (20 May 1889 – 3 August 1948) was an English painter of figure subjects, flowers and landscapes in oil and watercolours.

Biography

Cundell was born in London and was the granddaughter of the artist Henry Cundell. She attended the Blackheath School of Art and the Westminster Technical Institute where she was taught by Walter Sickert. Cundell studied part-time at the Slade School of Art from 1911 to 1914, and then again in 1919. In 1930 Cundell was among the founding members of the National Society of Painters, Sculptors and Gravers/Printmakers. She wrote and illustrated the book Unsentimental Journey which was published in 1940 and included accounts of her travels in America, driving coast to coast with stops to go hunting on horseback or visit a rodeo. Her 1922 painting Smiling Woman is held in the Tate collection. Cundell lived for some time at Dorney near Windsor but died in London in 1948 and her ashes were scattered near Lee's Ferry in Arizona. A memorial exhibition was held in 1949 at the Royal Society of British Artists galleries in London.