Francesco Coleman
{{Short description|Italian artist (1851–1918)}}
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| birth_date = 23 July 1851
| birth_place = Rome
| death_date = 9 January 1918
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Francesco Coleman (1851–1918) was an Italian painter. He was the son of the English painter Charles Coleman and brother of the better-known Italian painter Enrico Coleman. He was known as a painter, in oil and in water-colour, of the people and landscapes of the Campagna Romana and the Agro Pontino, and of oriental subjects.
Life
Francesco Coleman was born in Rome on 23 July 1851.{{r|marini|page=245}} He was the sixth of eight children of the English painter Charles Coleman, who had come to Rome in 1831 and settled there permanently in 1835, and his wife Fortunata Segadori, a famous artist's model from Subiaco, whom he had married in 1836.{{r|rosa|page=247|rosa2|page2=120}} He studied painting in his father's studio, and showed a particular aptitude for water-colours.{{r|trecc}} He shared this studio at via Margutta 33 with his father and brother throughout his life. He ceased all artistic activity after the death of Enrico in 1911.{{r|rosa2|page=120}}
He died on 9 January 1918 at his home in via Valenziani, near the Porta Salaria. He was buried in the Cimitero del Verano.{{r|rosa2|page=120}}
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Category:19th-century Italian painters
Category:20th-century Italian painters
Category:20th-century Italian male artists
Category:Italian male painters
Category:Italian landscape painters
Category:Italian Orientalist painters
Category:19th-century Italian male artists
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