About Charles Caryl Coleman

  • Biography

    Although he spent most of his life in Italy as an expatriate artist, Charles Caryl Coleman exhibited in the United States and England and was claimed proudly by his birthplace of Buffalo, New York as a native son.

    Early in his career he executed a number of portraits and figure paintings and later specialized in landscape and architectural subjects. Many of his commissions were from Buffalo residents such as the decorative panel monumental still life he painted for a prominent Buffalo woman.

    Coleman was born in 1840 in Buffalo, New York. He studied art there under William H. Beard and an itinerant painter, Andrew Andrews whose real name was Isaacs.

    Coleman then spent the years 1859 to 1862 in Paris as a student of Tho...

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