Boston Athenaeum
10 1/2 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02108
Boston, MA 02108
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1800 Portland, Maine - 1842 Portland, Maine. Known for: Sea-landscape, genre and still-life painting.
One of the early landscape painters, Charles Codman was born in Portland, Maine and lived there for most of his life. He was a self-taught, successful painter of landscapes and marine scenes,... Read full biography
One of the early landscape painters, Charles Codman was born in Portland, Maine and lived there for most of his life. He was a self-taught, successful painter of landscapes and marine scenes, primitive portraits, and signs. It is believed Codman apprenticed with clockmakers, Simon and Aaron Willard... Read full biography
One of the early landscape painters, Charles Codman was born in Portland, Maine and lived there for most of his life. He was a self-taught, successful painter of landscapes and marine scenes, primitive portraits, and signs. It is believed Codman apprenticed with clockmakers, Simon and Aaron Willard of Roxbury and after that sign-painter, John Ritto Penniman of Roxbury and Boston. In 1828, art critic John Neal touted his work, having seen it on a visit to Portland, and this recognition was a... Read full biography
One of the early landscape painters, Charles Codman was born in Portland, Maine and lived there for most of his life. He was a self-taught, successful painter of landscapes and marine scenes, primitive portraits, and signs. It is believed Codman apprenticed with clockmakers, Simon and Aaron Willard of Roxbury and after that sign-painter, John Ritto Penniman of Roxbury and Boston. In 1828, art critic John Neal touted his work, having seen it on a visit to Portland, and this recognition was a significant boost to Codman's career. He exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum and the National Academy of Design in New York City. In his romantic landscapes, human figures are diminished, and the lighting is manipulated to heighten drama. Some of these... Read full biography
One of the early landscape painters, Charles Codman was born in Portland, Maine and lived there for most of his life. He was a self-taught, successful painter of landscapes and marine scenes, primitive portraits, and signs. It is believed Codman apprenticed with clockmakers, Simon and Aaron Willard of Roxbury and after that sign-painter, John Ritto Penniman of Roxbury and Boston. In 1828, art critic John Neal touted his work, having seen it on a visit to Portland, and this recognition was a significant boost to Codman's career. He exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum and the National Academy of Design in New York City. In his romantic landscapes, human figures are diminished, and the lighting is manipulated to heighten drama. Some of these scenes are artificial looking, but they provide historically important material with depictions of buildings, genre and townscape activity... Read full biography
Charles Codman - Artist Info
About Charles Codman: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (5)
All MuseumsMaine Historical Society
489 Congress Street
Portland, ME 04101Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA)
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115Portland Museum of Art (PMA)
7 Congress Square
Portland, ME 04101The Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11238-6052