Nicholas Condy (1793 – 8 January 1857) was an

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painter. Condy was supposed to have been born at

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, in the then parish of Antony East,

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, in 1793, but no entry of his baptism is to be found in the register kept at

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Church. This is because he was actually baptised on 2 April 1793 in Withiel, Cornwall. Father: Nicholas; mother: Elizabeth. Father Nicholas Condy, of Mevagissey, had married Elizabeth Thomas in Withiel on 28 June 1790. However, a Nicholas Condy died in 1807 in Torpoint, presumably his father. Condy married Ann Trevanion Pyle (1792–1860) on 3 October 1814 in Stoke Damerel, now Plymouth. Ann was from Falmouth and daughter of Captain Mark Oates of the

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. The couple had a son,

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Nicholas Matthews Condy Nicholas Matthew(s) Condy, or Nicholas Condy the Younger, or Junior (1818 – 20 May 1851) was a British marine art, maritime painter. Life Birth and education He was born on 1818 in Dover to Nicholas Condy (1793–1857) and Ann Trevanion Con ...

, who is often confused with him. He was gazetted to the 43rd Regiment as an

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on 9 May 1811, and served in the

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; he became a

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on 24 February 1818, and was thenceforth on half-pay during the remainder of his life. From 1818 he devoted his attention to art, and became a professional painter at

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. He chiefly produced small oil paintings and

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on tinted paper, about eight inches by five inches, which he sold at prices ranging from fifteen shillings to one guinea each. Between 1830 and 1845 he exhibited two landscapes at the

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, four at the

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, and one at

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. His best known painting is entitled ''The Old Hall at

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on a Rent-day.'' He brought out a work called ''Cotehele, on the Banks of the Tamar, the ancient seat of the Right Hon. the Earl of Mount-Edgcumbe, by N. Condy, with a descriptive account written by the Rev. F. V. J. Arundell, 17 plates, London, published by the author, at 17 Gate Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields,'' with text supplied by

Francis Vyvyan Jago Arundell Francis Vyvyan Jago Arundell (1780–1846) was an English antiquary, Anglican clergyman and oriental traveller. Biography Arundell was born at Launceston, Cornwall, in July 1780, being the only son of Thomas Jago, a solicitor in that town, who h ...

. He died at 10 Mount Pleasant Terrace, Plymouth, aged 64, and was buried in St. Andrew's churchyard.

Paintings (selected

In the Scullery

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* ;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Condy, Nicholas Landscape artists 19th-century English painters English male painters English watercolourists 43rd Regiment of Foot officers British Army personnel of the Napoleonic Wars People from Torpoint 1793 births 1857 deaths 19th-century English male artists