He was known as a painter, in oil and in water-colour, of the people and landscapes of the Campagna Romana and the Agro Pontino, and of oriental subjects.
[1]: 245 He was the sixth of eight children of the English painter Charles Coleman, who had come to Rome in 1831 and settled there permanently in 1835, and his wife Fortunata Segadori, a famous artist's model from Subiaco, whom he had married in 1836.
[2]: 247 [3]: 120 He studied painting in his father's studio, and showed a particular aptitude for water-colours.
[3]: 120 He died on 9 January 1918 at his home in via Valenziani, near the Porta Salaria.
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