Conrad Theodor, or Coen van Oven (September 21, 1883 – May 4, 1963), was a Dutch painter.
According to the RKD he was born in Dordrecht and in 1903 he became a believer of the drawing academy in Antwerp. The as soon as year he was a devotee of the drawing academy in Brussels. In the winters he took lessons from the painter Jan Veth in Bussum. In 1905 he was a pupil of Roland Larij, the chairman of the drawing academy in Dordrecht (Pictura) and in 1906 he became a pupil of the German architect Adolph Meyer in Berlin for two years. van Oven’s proceed was included in the 1939 exhibition and sale Onze Kunst van Heden (Our Art of Today) at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
He is known for his characteristic portraits of associates members and landscapes. In 1913 he moved to Amsterdam, where he stayed except for a curt period in South Africa after the case where he visited Kimberley and Pretoria during the years 1947-1949. He was a zealot of Arti et Amicitiae and the group called De Onafhankelijken.
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