Nicholas Condy

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Nicholas Condy [or Cundy] (1793–1857), British landscape painter.

Condy is supposed to have been born at Torpoint, in the parish of Antony East, Cornwall, in 1793, but no entry of his baptism is to be found in the register kept at Antony Church. He was gazetted to the 43rd Regiment as an ensign on 9 May 1811, and served in the Peninsular; he became a Lieutenant 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 Plymouth. He chiefly produced small water-colours 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 at the Royal Academy two landscapes, at the British Institution four, and at the Suffolk Street Gallery one. His best known painting is entitled The Old Hall at Cotehele 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.

He died at 10 Mount Pleasant Terrace, Plymouth, on 8 January 1857, aged 64, and was buried in St. Andrew's churchyard.

By his wife Ann Trevanion Pyle (1792–1860), daughter of Captain Mark Oates of the Marines, he was father of the marine art Nicholas Matthews Condy, who is occasionally confused with him.

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This article incorporates text from the Dictionary of National Biography (1885–1900), a publication now in the public domain.