Francesco Coleman

(Roma, 1851 - Roma, 1918)

Pair of swordsmen. Watercolor on paper, 50x35 cm. Signed lower right "F.Coleman". Within the nineteenth-century English frames with old label "Bradford, Alfred Megson Fine Art Gallery". Provenance: London, Christie's, November 16, 1956. Brother of the best known Enrico, Francesco was a particularly skilled watercolourist in the representation of the figure in a popular key and historical setting, almost always treated with a subtle satirical vein. he was nicknamed the "bible" because of his private and secluded life, in the shadow of the fame of his father, a well-known English landscape painter, and his brother.

cm 50x35