Charles Ernest Cundall, RA RWS RP, (6 September 1890 – 4 November 1971), was an English painter of topographical subjects and townscapes, best known for his large panoramic canvases.

He spent the first half of 1942 in Northern Ireland painting the American troops arriving there and worked in Scotland in September and October of that year.

[8][9][6] At the end of the war, King George VI purchased two of Cundall's paintings showing war-time activities in Windsor Great Park.

As neither artist had witnessed the events at Dunkirk, they relied on published accounts, photographs, eyewitness reports and their own imaginations, to make their compositions.

Most newspaper art critics, and Kenneth Clark, preferred Eurichs' symmetrical, more classical composition and criticised Cundall for having put too much unresolved detail into his picture, which seemed confused and unruly in places.