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
- ↑ 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".
- ↑ 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"
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