Charles Coleman (English painter)
{{Short description|British painter}}
{{Distinguish|Charles Caryl Coleman}}
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| alt = Charles Coleman, etching of transhumant shepherds in the campagna romana, showing sheep, a working dog of Pastore Maremmano-Abruzzese type, horses of Maremmano type and a conical capanna or lestra. From A Series of Subjects peculiar to the Campagna of Rome and Pontine Marshes (1850)
|caption = Charles Coleman, etching of transhumant shepherds in the Campagna Romana, showing sheep, a working dog of Pastore Maremmano-Abruzzese type, horses of Maremmano type and a conical capanna or lestra; from A Series of Subjects peculiar to the Campagna of Rome and Pontine Marshes (1850)
| birth_name = Charles Coleman
| birth_date = c. 1807
| birth_place = Pontefract, Yorkshire
| death_date = 1874
| death_place = Rome
| nationality = British
| spouse = Fortunata Segadori
| field = {{ubl|Campagna Romana|Agro Pontino}}
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| movement = Campagna Romana School
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Charles Coleman (c. 1807 – 1874) was a British landscape and animal painter, born in Pontefract, in Yorkshire, England. He was active principally in Rome, where was an important influence on Nino Costa and made a significant contribution to the formation of the Campagna Romana School of painting.
Life
Coleman first went to Rome in 1831 to study the paintings of Michelangelo and Raphael.{{r|quint|page=14|trecc2}} He became permanently resident there in 1835,{{r|sisi}} and on 21 June 1836 married Fortunata Segadori (or Segatori) from Subiaco, who, along with Vittoria Caldoni of Albano, was one of the most famous Roman models of the time.{{r|derosa|page=247}} Segadori had sat for August Riedel;{{r|nuova|page=490}} a portrait of her by Johann Heinrich Richter is in the Thorvaldsen Museum in Copenhagen. The couple had eight children; their son Enrico Coleman (1846–1911), was also a landscape painter, in oils and watercolour, as was the younger and less well-known Francesco Coleman. The Colemans' first address was 25 via Zucchelli.{{r|derosa|page=247}} In 1869 the family moved to 16 via Zucchelli, and for the first time Coleman set up a separate studio, at 33 via Margutta, possibly with the intention of providing space for his two painter sons.{{r|sisi|derosa|page2=247}}
Works
Four of his paintings, dated from 1845 to 1847 and all featuring buffaloes, are listed in the catalogue of the collection of Beriah Botfield.{{r|bot|page=11}} From 1848 to 1850 he made etchings of scenes and animals in the Campagna Romana, and these were published in 1850 as A Series of Subjects peculiar to the Campagna of Rome and Pontine Marshes, designed from nature and etched by C. Coleman.{{r|series}} He was dismissive of academic teaching, believing that observation from nature was the best education for an artist.{{r|pieri|page=88}} He exhibited five times at the Royal Academy of London, for the last time in 1869.{{r|derosa|page=247}}
Coleman remained largely unknown in his native country but became a major influence on the Italian landscape painter Nino Costa, whom he met in the Campagna in the early 1850s.{{r|agresti|page=56}} Coleman was considered the founder of the "Campagna Romana" school of painting in Italy.{{r|pieri|page=88}}
He died in Rome in 1874.{{r|trecc}}
Published works
- A Series of Subjects peculiar to the Campagna of Rome and Pontine Marshes, designed from nature and etched by C. Coleman Rome: [s.n.] 1850.
References
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Riccardo Quintieri (1901). [https://books.google.com/books?id=sY5RAAAAYAAJ La Rassegna internazionale della letteratura e dell'arte contemporanea], volumes 6–7 (in Italian). Firenze: Libreria Fratelli Bocca.
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Category:English landscape painters
Category:People from Pontefract
Category:19th-century English painters
Category:English male painters