Charles Conder (1868-1909)

Aliases: Charles Edward Conder

Professions: Painter; Etcher; Lithographer

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  Charles Conder , British 1868-1909 THE FATAL COLORS Oil on wood panel

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  CHARLES CONDER

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  Sir John Everett Millais, Bt., P.R.A. (1829-1896)

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  CHARLES CONDER , CHARLES CONDER British 1868-1909 AUSTRALIAN LANDSCAPE Oil on canvas

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Charles Conder Biography

(b London, 24 Oct 1868; d Virginia Water, Surrey, 9 Feb 1909). English painter, active in Australia and France. He was sent to Australia in 1884 to learn surveying under his uncle W. J. Conder. After about two years in survey camps, he attended evening classes at the Royal Art Society, Sydney; in 1887 he worked as a lithographic draughtsman for the Illustrated Sydney News . Tom Roberts, then in Sydney on a visit from Melbourne, was among the open-air landscape painters that he knew at this time. He taught Conder some of the principles of Impressionism, such as truth to the momentary effect of light and to colour values, and the rejection of the academic ideal of high finish. The most important painting of Conder’s Sydney years, the Departure of the ‘SS Orient’ from Circular Quay, 1888 (1888; Sydney, A.G. NSW), already showed a distinct personal style, combining humour with nostalgia and selective observation with decorative finesse of handling and design. In December 1888 Conder joined Roberts and Arthur Streeton in Melbourne. During the following summers they painted together at the outer suburbs of Mentone, Box Hill and Eaglemont (see HEIDELBERG SCHOOL). Conder lived in a room in Melbourne fitted out in the Aesthetic style and used his studio as a form of self-expression. His friends in Melbourne included the English novelist Mrs Mannington Caffyn, who included a written portrait of Conder in her Australian novel A Yellow Aster (London, 1894). In 1889 Conder joined Roberts, Streeton, Frederick McCubbin and others at the Buxton Galleries, Melbourne, in a show of small cedar panels, predominantly cigar-box lids, known as the ‘9 by 5 Impression Exhibition’ after the size of the panels.

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