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Charles Edward Conder
Early Life and Artistic Journey Charles Edward Conder (1868 – 1909) was an English-born painter, lithographer and designer who left an indelible mark on the art world. Born in Tottenham, Middlesex, the second son of six children, of James Conder, civil engineer and Mary Ann Ayres, he spent several years as a young child in India until the death of his mother (aged 31 years) on 14 May 1873 in Bombay, when Charles was four; he was then s
ent back to England and attended a number of schools including a boarding school at Eastbourne, which he attended from 1877. He left school at 15, and his very religious, non-artistic father, against Charles’s natural artistic inclinations, decided that he should follow in his footsteps as a civil engineer. Artistic Career in Australia In 1884, at the age of 16, he was sent to Sydney, Australia, where he worked for his uncle, a land…