Background
Philip was born in Belfast, the son of Paul Conisbee, but raised in London, being educated at Street Dunstan"s College in Catford before earning a Bachelor in European Art at the Courtauld Institute in 1968.
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A comprehensive survey of French genre painting of the 18th century, from Watteau's "fetes galantes" to Boilly's paintings of modern Parisian life. Showcasing 113 works, the volume illustrates the variety and the vitality of genre painting throughout the period. Leading English, German, French and American scholars shed light on the development of genre painting, its interpretation, its collectors and its enormous appeal. Here are gathered together masterpieces by such eminent artists as Watteau, Lancret, de Troy, Chardin, Boucher, Greuze, Fragonard, Robert and Boilly. The wide range of their featured works encompasses military scenes, theatrical subjects, hunt pictures, pastorals, domestic life, moral pictures, fishwife subjects, paintings for the boudoir, and panoramas of the Enlightenment in landscapes and townscapes. Each work is thoroughly catalogued, and an appendix lists all genre paintings shown in the 18-century Salons.
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Philip was born in Belfast, the son of Paul Conisbee, but raised in London, being educated at Street Dunstan"s College in Catford before earning a Bachelor in European Art at the Courtauld Institute in 1968.
Continuing in academia he received a doctorate for his thesis on the French landscape artist Claude Joseph Vernet in 1971. From 1971 to 1986 he lectured at Leicester University. He then moved to America to act as Curator of French Art at the Museum of Fine Art in Boston.
He befriended Earl Powell III and moved to California to work with him at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1988.
Powell moved to Washington in 1992 and asked Conisbee to join him the following year. He became a United States citizen in 1994.
He rose to be Curator of the National Gallery of Art in Washington District of Columbia In 1998 he organised one of the country"s most successful exhibitions:Van Gogh"s Van Gogh. In 2003 the French government awarded him Chevalier de la Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur"Honneur.
He died of lung cancer in Georgetown, near Washington District of Columbia but is buried in Highgate Cemetery in north London.
Conisbee first married Susan Baer, with whom he had two children. see.
(A comprehensive survey of French genre painting of the 18...)