ENRICO HENRI COLEMAN Original 19th Century Italian Signed Watercolor Painting

Description: ENRICO HENRI COLEMAN (1846-1911)Original watercolor painting by this highly regarded Italian artist of English heritage. A truly spectacular example by the artist! Subject: Spanish conquistadors pillaging villagers during the Spanish colonization of the Americas Signed bottom right and inscribed "Roma"Image size: 19" high and 25" wide. Mounted in a freme that measures 23"X28". Artist info: Enrico Coleman (21 June 1846 -- 14 February 1911) 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 painted, in oils and in watercolours, the landscapes of the Campagna Romana and the Agro Pontino; he was a collector, grower and painter of orchids. Because of his supposedly Oriental air, he was known to his friends as "Il Birmano", the Burmese. Enrico Coleman was born in Rome on 21 June 1846. He was the fourth child of the English painter Charles Coleman, who had come to Rome in 1831 and settled there permanently in 1835, and of a famous artist's model from Subiaco, Fortunata Segadori (or Segatori), whom Charles had married in 1836. Coleman was initially taught by his father, and either did or did not study at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. Following the mocking reception of Una mandria di bufali nelle paludi pontine, a naturalistic painting of a herd of buffaloes in the Pontine marshes, at the International Artist's Club in 1872, he reportedly began to paint genre subjects in the manner of the then-fashionable Mariano Fortuny, although no works showing the influence of the Spanish painter are known. At the instigation of Nino Costa, he soon returned to the depiction of the people, animals and landscapes of the Campagna Romana and the Agro Pontino.In 1875, Coleman was among the founding members of the Società degli Acquarellisti, the Roman society of watercolourists; he participated in the society's first exhibition in 1876, and continued to exhibit with them until 1907. In 1878 he was elected an honorary member of the Société Royale Belge des Aquarellistes, the Belgian royal society of watercolourists, with which he participated in the Salon de Paris in 1879.In 1885, Coleman was among the founding members of the group In Arte Libertas, of which Nino Costa was the leading force and the other founding members were Vincenzo Cabianca, Onorato Carlandi, Giuseppe Cellini [it], Alessandro Castelli [it], Cesare Formilli [it], Giuseppe Raggio, Alfredo Ricci, Mario de Maria and Gaetano VannicolaColeman had six paintings in the first exhibition of the group, which took place from 10--28 February 1886, in the studio of an amateur painter named Giorgi, at 72 via S. Nicola da Tolentino. He participated in some measure in all of the subsequent annual exhibitions. From 1895 to 1899 the group exhibited collectively at the Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte della Città di Venezia, which would later become the Biennale di Venezia; Coleman continued to exhibit in every edition until the ninth in 1910. Please note that there is a crack running down the middle of the painting.

Price: 2400 USD

Location: Happy Valley, Oregon

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