Francesco Coleman was an Italian painter. He was the son of the English painter Charles Coleman and brother of the better-known Italian painter Enrico Coleman

Enrico Coleman

Enrico Coleman was an Italian painter of British nationality. He was the son of the English painter Charles Coleman and brother of the less well-known Italian painter Francesco Coleman. He was known for his paintings, in oils and in watercolours, of the landscapes of the Campagna Romana and Agro...

. 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. 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.