Enrico Coleman Biography
Enrico Coleman (Rome, 25 June 1846 – Rome, 1911) was an Italian painter, considered the leader of the naturalism of Roman painting in the second half of the nineteenth century. Little is known about Enrico Coleman's apprenticeship, which certainly took place with his father Charles Coleman. The first known watercolors by Enrico Coleman are those from the found album, dated from 1871 to 1875. Before this date he had probably limited himself to painting works that were completed and signed by his father, who was better known and appreciated by collectors of the time. In the watercolors painted between 1871 and 1873 as in the large oil painting of 1872, Transport of travertine to the studio of the sculptor John Warrington Wood in Trinità dei Monti, kept in the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, he still shows himself to be strongly linked to art paternal. Five paintings by Coleman appear at the Italian Exhibition in London in 1888, where a room is reserved for "Costian" artists. In 1891 he painted twenty-nine lunettes in fresco depicting the landscapes dear to the painter, in the atrium of the villa that Senator Francesco Durante had built near the Polyclinic. In 1892 he was present at the Palermo Exposition with five views of the Gran Sasso of Italy, painted in watercolor during excursions organized by the Roman section of the Alpine Club of which he was one of the first members. We also remember his passion for hunting, and his interest in flora, and in particular in orchids: Burmese Orchideomania is a collection of eighty-three tempera paintings which reproduce the same number of specimens present in Lazio. In 1904 he was among the founders of the I XXV group of the Roman Campagna of which he was appointed Capoccetta for life. He died in Rome in 1911 and was buried in the non-Catholic Cemetery of Rome in Testaccio, formerly the "English Cemetery".
