Enrico Coleman
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Enrico Coleman (21 or 25 June 1846 – 14 February 1911) was an Italian painter of British nationality. He was the son of the English painter
Life
Enrico Coleman was born in Rome in June 1846.
Coleman was initially taught by his father,
Coleman was lover of orchids, which he painted, collected and cultivated. A famous album of 88 orchid paintings, either in watercolour[2][7] or in gouache,[10] painted in the 1890s[7] and entitled Orchidea Birmana[11] was sold to an Englishman;[2] it was "rediscovered" in the 1980s and published in facsimile.[10] An 1894 watercolour of orchids is in the Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome.[11] Coleman had a remarkable collection of indigenous orchids, which he cultivated himself in special boxes[5] at his house at 6 via Valenziana.[12] He successfully hybridised Orchis provincialis var. pauciflora and Orchis mascula var. rosea; the botanist Fabrizio Cortesi named the hybrid Orchis x colemanii Cortesi in his honour.[2]
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 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
Shortly after the death of Costa in 1903, In Arte Libertas was transformed into a new society, the "XXV della Campagna Romana". The XXV was born in the trattoria "Il Pozzo di San Patrizio" on the via Nomentana, on the evening of 24 May 1904.[14] Coleman was elected "capocetta", "little head" or president, for life. The other members included Giuseppe and Ettore Ferrari, Onorato Carlandi, Giulio Aristide Sartorio, members of the earlier group, who were joined by Cesare Pascarella, Arturo Noci, Lorenzo Cecconi, Vittorio Grassi , Carlo Montani , Amedeo and Virgilio Simonetti , and others.[2]
Enrico Coleman never married.[12] Although he kept his British nationality throughout his life, he never visited Britain. The only large city he ever saw was Turin. According to Diego Angeli, apart from that one journey, he never went further north than Monte Soratte, nor further south than Terracina.[15] As well as painting and orchids, he loved shooting and mountain-climbing. He was among the early members of the Club Alpino Italiano, which he joined in 1881, and of which he was made an honorary member for life in 1906.[5] The club published his panorama of the Gran Sasso d'Italia in 1884,[16] and awarded him a gold medal at the Esposizione Alpina, or mountaineering exhibition, in Bologna in 1888.[2]
He died in Rome of
Published works
- 'Panorama invernale del Gran Sasso d'Italia' (Chromolithograph) in Bollettino del Club Alpino Italiano Torino: Fratelli Doyen 1884. XVII:50 tavola VII
- Roma: La Tribuna 1886
- Edoardo de Fonseca I castelli romani Firenze: Fratelli Alinari 1904
Notes
- ^ I Pittori Coleman has 25 June. See LCCN.
- ^ According to Agresti, Costa said : "Dear Enrico, farewell! If you have any drawings by your father put away in your portfolios, unfold them religiously, frame them, kneel before them, and repent of ever having followed bad art"
- ^ Agresti gives the first article of their manifesto, in a version dating from 1890, as: "The artists Vincenzo Cabianca, Onorato Carlandi, Giuseppe Cellini, Enrico Coleman, Nino Costa, Alessandro Castelli, Cesare Formilli, Alessandro Morani, Norberto Pazzini, Raimondo Pontecorvo, Giuseppe Raggio, Alessandro Ricci, Lemmo Rossi-Scotti, Luigi Serra, and Gaetano Vannicola, feel that they love art freely, each in his own way, and they unite to show to the public by means of annual exhibitions their researches in art."
References
- ^ Muñoz, Antonio (ed.) (1938) L'Urbe: rivista romana Anno III – 1938:XVI, XVII Roma: Fratelli Palombi p.22
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Tempesta, C[laudia] ([n.d.]) 'COLEMAN, Enrico (Henry)' in Dizionario Biografico - Treccani (in Italian) Accessed September 2011.
- ^ Olson, Roberta J.M. (1976) Italian 19th century drawings & watercolors: an album, Camuccini & Minardi to Mancini & Balla New York: Shepherd Gallery cat. no. 65
- ISBN 978-88-435-5746-2p. 151 "Landscape painting in Italy: the nineteenth century"
- ^ ISBN 978-88-8016-478-4p. 245–8 (in Italian) "The Campagna Romana from Hackert to Balla"
- Fratelli Boccapp.14–16 "The international review of literature and contemporary art"
- ^ a b c d e Castelnuovo, Enrico (ed.) (1991) La Pittura in Italia: L'Ottocento revised edition, Milano: Electa, p.747 (in Italian) "Painting in Italy: the nineteenth century"
- ^ a b Agresti, Olivia Rossetti (1907) Giovanni Costa, his life, work, and times 2nd edition London: Gay & Bird, pp. 195–196 (1st: London: Grant Richards 1904)
- ^ De Rosa, Pier Andrea; Paolo Emilio Trastulli (2004) Acquerelli giovanili di Enrico Coleman (1871-1875): l'album ritrovato Roma: Alessio Ponti (in Italian) "Youthful watercolours of Enrico Coleman (1871–1875): the lost album"
- ^ a b De Rosa, Pier Andrea; Paolo Emilio Trastulli (1988) Orchidee romane: l'eccezionale Album di Enrico Coleman con le ottantotto tempere della sua raccolta di orchidee fiorite a Roma e nella Campagna romana: inedita ed unica testimonianza di luoghi non ancora contaminati dall'inquinamento ambientale Roma: Newton Compton (in Italian) "Roman orchids, the exceptional album of Enrico Coleman with the 88 gouaches of his collection of orchids flowering in Rome and in the Roman Campagna, unpublished and unique testimonial of places not yet contaminated by environmental pollution"
- ^ ISBN 978-88-7621-492-9p.134
- ^ a b Mammucari, Renato (2001) Acquerellisti romani: suggestioni neoclassiche, esotismo orientale, decadentismo bizantino, realismo borghese Città di Castello (Perugia): Edimond p.226 (in Italian) "Roman watercolourists: neoclassical influences, Eastern exoticism, Byzantine decadence, bourgeois realism".
- ISBN 978-1-904350-44-6pp. 87–8
- ^ Vigezzi, Silvio (1932) La scultura italiana dell'ottocento Milano: Ceschina p.99 (in Italian) "Italian sculpture of the nineteenth century".
- ^ Angeli, Diego (1930) Le Cronache del Caffè Greco Milano: Fratelli Treves
- ^ Coleman, Enrico (1884) 'Panorama invernale del Gran Sasso d'Italia' (Chromolithograph) in Bollettino del Club Alpino Italiano Torino: Fratelli Doyen XVII:50 tavola VII
- ^ Mammucari, Renato (2002) Campagna romana: carte geografiche, piante prospettiche, vedute panoramiche, costumi pittoreschi (Collana Imago) Città di Castello (Perugia): Edimond pp.45–58
- ^ Murdaca, Roberta Guida breve delle sale: Primo Novecento (in Italian) Soprintendenza alla Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna e contemporanea 2010. Accessed September 2011. "Brief guide to the rooms: Early 20th century".
- ^ Pica, Vittorio (1911) 'In memoriam – Enrico Coleman – Ugo Valeri' in Emporium XXXIII:136, April 1911 Bergamo: Istituto italiano d'arti grafiche p.306ff (in Italian)
- ^ 'La sezione di Roma del CAI alla mostra di Castel Sant' Angelo' in Rivista del Club alpino italiano Torino: Redazione Presso la sede centrale del C.A.I. XXX p.194 (in Italian) "The Rome section of the CAI at the exhibition of Castel Sant' Angelo"
Further reading
- [s.n.] (1911) 'Necrologio – Enrico Coleman' (obituary) in Annali di botanica IX:2 Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche; Università degli studi di Roma La Sapienza, Dipartimento di biologia vegetale. Rome: Tipografia E. Voghera
- [s.n.] (1911) Catalogo della mostra di belle arti, esposizione internazionale di Roma Bergamo: Istituto Italiano d'Arti Grafiche p. 20
- Vittorio Pica (April 1911). In memoriam – Enrico Coleman – Ugo Valeri (obituary, in Italian). Emporium (136).
- Francesco Sapori ([1919]) Enrico Coleman (Maestri dell'arte no. 15) Torino: E. Celanza
- Augusto Jandolo (1938) Le memorie di un antiquario Milano: Ceschina p. 335
- Livio Iannattoni (1945) Roma e gli Inglesi Roma: Atlantica
- ——— (1950) 'I pittori Coleman' in L'Urbe XIII:4 p. 27ff
- Francesco Sapori (1954) I maestri di Terracina Roma p. 33
- Valentino Martinelli (1963) Paesisti romani dell'Ottocento Roma: Fratelli Palombi p. 59
- Maurizio Marini, Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco (1977) Il gran libro della natura: Ettore Ferrari e la pittura di paesaggio a Roma tra 800 e 900 Roma: Edizioni Aventino p. 99
- Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco, Maurizio Marini (1978) Mostra di costume di Roma 800 Roma: De Luca p. 14
- Anna Gramiccia (1978) 'Enrico Coleman' in Da Canova a De Carolis Roma p. 81
- Massimiliano Marazzi (1979) 'La Campagna romana in un dipinto di Enrico Coleman' in Lazio ieri e oggi January 1979
- Egidio Maria Eleuteri ([19--]) Lo studio dal vero nella Campagna Romana di Eurico Coleman: con 18 disegni in bianco e nero [s.l.]: All'Insegna del settimo sigillo
- Pier Andrea De Rosa, Paolo Emilio Trastulli (1988) I pittori Coleman Roma: Studio Ottocento
- Pier Andrea De Rosa (1997) Enrico Coleman: 1846-1911: pittura & natura: Palazzo Campello, Roma, 13 maggio-8 giugno 1997 Roma: Studio Ottocento