Cyril Saunders Spackman (1887–1963) was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of a Welsh Minister. He studied architecture at King's College London and was a pupil of T.E. Lidiard James. Although he trained as an architect he always wanted to be a painter. He exhibited his first work at the Royal Academy in 1913 at the age of twenty-six.
Spackman became a member of several architectural organisations, as well as the Royal Society of British Artists, Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers (RMS), and Society of Graphic Artists. He lived near Croydon, Surrey and was a member of the Camera Club. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Cambrian Society, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and The Cleveland Museum of Art, USA. The British Museum hold examples of his etchings.
