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 his 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 Hamburg, Dec. 27, 1599. Flemish school; history and portrait painter, pupil of Antonius Palermo and of Lambert Wenslyns, then spent several years in Italy. Master of Antwerp guild in 1561, dean in 1584-85. The siege of Antwerp caused him to remove to Amsterdam, whence he afterwards went to Hamburg. Works: Portrait of Pierson la Hues, St. George (1581), Antwerp Museum.—Allgem. d. Biog., iv. 437; Biog. nat. de Belgique, iv. 269; Cat. du Musée 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 received into the guild under the name of Ramelaar (rabbit), owing to the frequent occurrence of that animal in his pictures. Works: Bear Hunt, Stag Hunt, Amsterdam Museum; Garden with Domestic Animals, Ghent Museum; Dead Ducks on a Tree, Museum, Vienna; Dead Game, Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.—Michiels, x. 327.

CONINCXLO (Coninxloo, Conincxloy), GILLIS VAN, born in Antwerp, Jan. 24, 1544, died in Amsterdam after 1604. Flemish 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 figures; afterwards smaller ones in the manner of Vinckebooms. Works: Jonah preaching 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 Antwerp, 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 Cornelis 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; Fétis, Cat. du Mus. royal, 103.

CONRAD, ALBERT, born at Torgau, Feb., 1837. Genre and architecture painter, mostly self-taught. Travelled in Tyrol, Westphalia, 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, Barred, Pay Toll! Hiding Place; Goose Market in Berlin.—Müller, 111.

CONRAD, KARL EMANUEL, born in Berlin, March 30, 1810, died in Cologne, July 12, 1873. Architecture painter; pupil of Berlin Academy, then in 1835-39 of Düsseldorf Academy. Taught perspective there, and was professor at the Realschule. Works: St. Quirin's Church in Neuss, Interior St. Severin's in Cologne (1837); View of Wetzlar (1840); Mentz Cathedral (1841); Cologne Cathedral (1842); Replica in Ravené Gallery, Berlin; Custom House in London (1852); Interior of Cologne Cathedral (1871).