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.
Francesco Coleman | |
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| Born | Francesco Coleman 23 July 1851 Rome |
| Died | 9 January 1918 |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Known for | landscape, water-colour, Campagna Romana, Orientalism |
Life edit
Francesco Coleman was born in Rome on 23 July 1851.[1]: 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.[2]: 247 [3]: 120 He studied painting in his father's studio, and showed a particular aptitude for water-colours.[4] 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.[3]: 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.[3]: 120
References edit
- ^ Giuseppe Luigi Marini (2007). Il valore dei dipinti italiani dell'Ottocento e del primo Novecento: l'analisi critica, storica ed economica, 25th edition (in Italian). Series title: Annuari di economia dell'arte. Torino: Umberto Allemandi. ISBN 9788842215219.
- ^ Pier Andrea De Rosa, Paolo Emilio Trastulli (2001). La campagna romana da Hackert a Balla (in Italian). Rome: Studio Ottocento, for Museo del Corso. ISBN 9788880164784 p. 247 "The Campagna Romana from Hackert to Balla"
- ^ a b c Pier Andrea De Rosa, Paolo Emilio Trastulli (1988). I pittori Coleman (exhibition catalogue, in Italian). Roma: Studio Ottocento.
- ^ Claudia Tempesta (1982). COLEMAN, Francesco (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, volume 26. Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed October 2017.
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