Cyril James Shiner (30 April 1908 – 24 May 1989) was a British

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the

1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and also known as London 1948) were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, England, United Kingdom. Following a twelve-year hiatus ca ...

Life

Shiner was born in Birmingham, and attended Mossley Road Junior Art School. He became a silversmith by profession, a pupil of

Bernard Cuzner Bernard Lionel Cuzner (1877 – 4 January 1956) was an England, English silversmith and product designer. Cuzner was born in Alcester in Warwickshire and initially trained as a watchmaker, before showing talent as a silversmith while taking e ...

at Birmingham Central School of Art. He was also an industrial designer, an art teacher, retiring in 1970, and a member of the Birmingham Art Circle during the 1930s. He married the artist and illustrator Eleanor Joyce Bliss. One of Shiner's works was the trophy for the winner of the King's Vase race at

Royal Ascot Ascot Racecourse ("ascot" pronounced , often pronounced ) is a dual-purpose British racecourse, located in Ascot, Berkshire, England, which is used for thoroughbred horse racing. It hosts 13 of Britain's 36 annual Flat Group 1 horse races and ...

1940. The race was cancelled because of wartime conditions, and the trophy was repurposed as the Dunkirk Cup, winning a competition, and commemorating the naval action of the

Dunkirk evacuation The Dunkirk evacuation, codenamed Operation Dynamo and also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, or just Dunkirk, was the evacuation of more than 338,000 Allied soldiers during the Second World War from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, in the ...

of late May and early June of that year. It was auctioned in July for the benefit of the Red Cross, being purchased by

Almeric Paget, 1st Baron Queenborough Almeric Hugh Paget, 1st Baron Queenborough, GBE (14 March 1861 – 22 September 1949) was a British industrialist and Conservative Party politician. He was a founder of the Military Massage Service and the Cambridgeshire Battalion of The Suffo ...

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1908 births 1989 deaths 20th-century British painters British male painters Olympic competitors in art competitions People from Birmingham, West Midlands 20th-century British male artists {{UK-painter-20thC-stub