Samuel Colman (British painter)

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Samuel Colman
Born1832
Died1920
NationalityBritish

Samuel Colman, also Samuel Coleman, (1780 21 January 1845) [1] was an English painter, based in Bristol for most of his career.

The Rock of Salvation by Samuel Colman, Yale Center for British Art, 1837 Samuel Colman - The Rock of Salvation - Google Art Project.jpg
The Rock of Salvation by Samuel Colman, Yale Center for British Art, 1837
The Edge of Doom, 1836. Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn Museum - The Edge of Doom - Samuel Colman.jpg
The Edge of Doom, 1836. Brooklyn Museum

Life

In about 1815 Colman moved from Yeovil to Bristol, where he lived until around 1840. He worked as a portrait painter and drawing-master in the city, as well as painting minutely detailed Romantic, Biblical and genre scenes. [2]

He was a religious Nonconformist who worshipped at the Castle Green Independent Chapel and the Zion Chapel in Bedminster, and his faith was central to his work; [2] some of his paintings, such as his The Destruction of the Temple (Tate Gallery), which shows the ruination of a Gothic cathedral, being criticisms of the Church of England. [3] His apocalyptic paintings have drawn comparisons to those of John Martin. [4]

He signed works as Colman and alternatively Coleman.

  1. Chilvers, Ian (2009). The Oxford Dictionary of Art. p. 161. ISBN   978-0-19-860476-1.
  2. 1 2 "Samuel Colman Saint James's Fair, detail". Bristol Museum & Art Gallery. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
  3. "Samuel Colman at the Tate" . Retrieved 12 September 2013.
  4. "Samuel Colman Brief Bio". 9 July 2013. Retrieved 12 September 2013.


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