John Condé (fl. 1785-1800), was an engraver.

Conde is sometimes called an Englishman,^[1] but on an engraving published in 1791, representing theChevalier d'Eon de Beaumont asMinerva, he styles himself a French artist, "who designed it for a monument of English generosity and French gratitude". Condé is well known from the number of engravings he executed from the elegant portraits drawn byRichard Cosway. These he engraved in pale delicate tints, using stipple, sanguine, or aquatint, and sometimes enhanced their elegance by enclosing them in framelike borders, called "glomisages" from the French engraver Glomy, who first designed them.

Among the portraits thus engraved wereMaria Fitzherbert,Mrs. Tickell,Mrs. Bouverie,Madame du Barry,Horace Beckford, and others. He engraved portraits of celebrities for theEuropean and other magazines, and also portraits of actors after De Wilde, or from the life, for theThespian Magazine. Among other works of his may be noticed a portrait ofLord Chancellor Thurlow, after S. Collings, and a print called "The Hobby Horse", from his own design. He was doubtless father ofPeter Condé, who engraved portraits ofJan Ladislav Dussek andCaleb Whitefoord, after Cosway, and also painted portraits, exhibiting at theRoyal Academy from 1806 to 1824.^[2]

"Condé, John" .Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

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