OONGNET liis sale (1876), $6,500. Photogravure in Art Treasures of America. Art. Treas. of Amer., ii. 6. CONGNET, GILLIS, called Gillis met de Vlek, born at Antwerp in 1535, died at Ham- burg, Dec. 27, 1599. Flemish school ; his- tory and portrait painter, pupil of Antonius Palermo and of Lambert Wenslyns, then spent several years in Italy. Master of Ant- werp guild in 1561, dean in 1584-85. The siege of Antwerp caused him to remove to Amsterdam, whence he afterwards went to Hamburg. S^u 8 f Piersou la Hues, St. George (1581), Antwerp Museum. Allgem. d. Biog., iv. 437 ; Biog. nat. de Belgique, iv. 269 ; Cat. du Musee d'Anvers (1874), 90; Van den Branden, 271. CONINCK, DAVID DE, born in Antwerp in 1636, died in Rome in 1687. Flemish school. Animal and still-life painter, pupil of Peeter Boel ; master of the guild in 1663. After travelling through Germany and France, settled in Rome, where he was re- ceived into the guild under the name of Ra- melaar (rabbit), owing to the frequent oc- currence of that animal in his pictures. Works : Bear Hunt, Stag Hunt, Amsterdam Museum ; Garden with Domestic Animals, _ o n cf >? e t /e/ J ^J Ghent Museum ; Dead Ducks on a Tree, Museum, Vienna; Dead Game, Liechtenstein Gallery, ib. Michiels, x. 327. CONINCXLO (Couinxloo, Couiucxloy), GILLIS VAN, born in Antwerp, Jan. 24, 1544, died in Amsterdam after 1604. Flem- ish school ; landscape painter, pupil of Pieter Coecke the younger, then of one Leenaert Kroes, and of Mostaert ; received into the guild in 1570. After travelling in France, he returned to Antwerp, but during the siege left for Zeeland, and then lived for ten years in Frankenthal, Palatinate, whence he moved to Amsterdam. At first he painted landscapes of extraordinary size, in which Marten van Cleef supplied the I figures ; afterwards smaller ones in the man- ner of Viuckebooms. Works : Jonah preach- ing to the Ninevites (1585), Copenhagen Gallery; Landscapes with Figures and Birds (1598, 1604), Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna. Allgem. d. Biogr., iv. 438 ; Biog. nat. de Belgique, iv. 359 ; Journal des B. Arts (1870), 50 ; Van den Branden, 306. CONINXLO (Conixlo), JAN VAN, born at Brussels about 1489, died in Antwerp (?). Flemish school, history painter ; son of a painter of the same name ; removed to Ant- werp, where he was received into the guild in 1552, and became a citizen in 1555. His works were formerly attributed to Gillis van C. Works : Triptych with Scenes in Life of St. Ann (1546), Birth of St. Nicholas, Death of St. Nicholas, Christ among the Doctors, Marriage at Cana, Brussels Museum. By Cornelia van Conixlo, otherwise unknown, is a picture in the same museum: Parentage of the Virgin (signed and dated 1526). Biog. nat. de Belgique, iv. 357 ; Fetis, Cat. du Mus. royal, 103. CONRAD, ALBERT, born at Torgau, Feb., 1837. Genre and architecture painter, mostly self-taught. Travelled in Tyrol, West- phalia, and on the Rhine. Studio in Berlin. His genre scenes are mostly humorous. Works : Well in Castle- Yard at Merseburg ; Yard of Castle Hartenfels near Torgau, I Barred, Pay Toll ! Hiding Place ; Goose Market in Berlin. Miiller, 111. CONRAD, KARL EMANTJEL, born in 'Berlin, March 30, 1810, died in Cologne, July 12, 1873. Architecture painter ; pupil ' of Berlin Academy, then in 1835-39 of Dtisseldorf Academy. Taught perspective there, and was professor at the Realschule. Works : St. Quirin's Church in Neuss, Inter- ior St. Severin's in Cologne (1837) ; View of Wetzlar (1840); Mentz Cathedral (1841); Cologne Cathedral (1842); Replica inRavene Gallery, Berlin ; Custom House in London | (1852); Interior of Cologne Cathedral (1871). 324
