The Precision of a Portraitist To look at the work of Conrad Geiger is to see the late eighteenth century through a lens of disciplined observation. He was not a painter of grand, sweeping abstractions but a man focused on the tangible reality of his subjects. Born in Erlangen, Geiger moved toward Würzburg as a teenager, driven by an artistic impulse that met resistance from his father. This early friction did not stall him; instead,…