13 Facts About Enrico Coleman

Enrico Coleman was an Italian painter of British nationality.

Enrico Coleman was the son of the English painter Charles Coleman and brother of the less well-known Italian painter Francesco Coleman.

Enrico Coleman 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.

Enrico Coleman 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, whom he had married in 1836.

Enrico Coleman was lover of orchids, which he painted, collected and cultivated.

Enrico Coleman had a remarkable collection of indigenous orchids, which he cultivated himself in special boxes at his house at 6 via Valenziana.

In 1875, Enrico Coleman was among the founding members of the Societa 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.

Enrico Coleman sent paintings to the 4th Esposizione Nazionale di Belle Arti, or national fine art show, of Turin in 1880, and to that of Milan in the following year; he showed works in London in 1882 and in Rome in 1883.

Enrico Coleman 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 Citta di Venezia, which would later become the Biennale di Venezia; Enrico Coleman continued to exhibit in every edition until the ninth in 1910.

Enrico Coleman was elected "capocetta", "little head" or president, for life.

Enrico Coleman 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.

Enrico Coleman died in Rome of pleurisy in the night of either 14 February 1911 or 4 February 1911, and is buried in the non-Catholic cemetery of Testaccio; the date on his gravestone is calculated from the foundation of Rome.