Charles Caryl Coleman

Charles Caryl Coleman was a prominent American expatriate artist who lived in Rome following the Civil War. In 1883, a writer for the Roman News described his studio as “a scene from a fairy play [filled with] antique tapestries and medieval paintings and brass lamps and rich oriental rugs, which the magician Coleman has managed to bring together.” He incorporated many of the exotic objects in his studio into his still-life paintings of the 1870s and 1880s.