Charles Edward Conder (24 Oct. 1868 – 9 Feb. 1909); English-born painter, lithographer and designer. He emigrated to Australia and was a key figure in the Heidelberg School, arguably the beginning of a distinctively Australian tradition in Western art. ...In 1884, at 16, he was sent to Sydney, Australia, where he worked for his uncle, a land surveyor for the New South Wales government. However he disliked the work, much preferring to draw the landscape rather than survey it. In 1886, he left the job and became an artist for the "Illustrated Sydney News", where he was in the company of other artists such as Albert Henry Fullwood, Frank Mahony and Benjamin Edwin Minns. He also attended the painting classes of Alfred James Daplyn and had joined the Art Society of New South Wales. ...In 1890, He moved to Paris and studied at the Académie Julian, where he befriended several avant-garde artists. ...and spent the rest of his life in Europe, mainly England, but visiting France on many occasions. His art was better received in England than in Paris. In 1892, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painted his portrait... ...His friends remembered him as "a sick man, unable to face reality". In spite of drunken spells and disreputable company, Condor's powers as an artist were then at their height. He made a specialty of painting on silk, relatively easy on silk fans, but he excelled on one... ...He spent the last year of his life in a sanatorium, and died in Holloway Sanatorium of "general paresis of the insane", in modern terms tertiary syphilis. In death, Conder's work was rated highly by many notable artists, such as Pissarro and Degas. The Canberra suburb of Conder, established in 1991, was named after him. Satirist Barry Humphries is a major aficionado and collector of the artist, and at one time had the world's largest private collection of Conder's work.[ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Conder) undefined

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