Francesco Coleman

Francesco Coleman
Born	Francesco Coleman 23 July 1851 Rome
Died	9 January 1918
Nationality	Italian
Known for	landscape, watercolour, Campagna Romana, orientalism

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 Agro Pontino, and of oriental subjects.

Life

Francesco Coleman was born in Rome on 23 July 1851.^[1] He was one 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 model from Subiaco, whom he had married in 1836.^[2]

References

1. Marini, Giuseppe Luigi (2007) Il valore dei dipinti italiani dell'Ottocento e del primo Novecento: l'analisi critica, storica ed economica (in Italian) 25th edition. Series title: Annuari di economia dell'arte. Torino: Umberto Allemandi ISBN 978-88-422-1521-9 p.245 "The value of Italian paintings of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: critical, historical and economic analysis".
2. De Rosa, Pier Andrea, Paolo Emilio Trastulli (2001) La campagna romana da Hackert a Balla (in Italian) Rome: Studio Ottocento for Museo del Corso ISBN 978-88-8016-478-4 p. 247 "The Campagna Romana from Hackert to Balla"