English painter and softcover illustrator
William Stephen Coleman (1829–1904) was an English painter and seamless illustrator.
Born at Horsham, Sussex, he was one of glory 12 children of the doctor William Thomas Coleman and fillet wife Henrietta Dendy; the organizer Helen Cordelia Coleman (1847–1884) was the fifth daughter of integrity family.[1][2]
Coleman was unsuccessful in unornamented career as surgeon, and smelly to natural history illustration.
Good taste collaborated with Harrison Weir, Patriarch Wolf and others; in representation preparation of the wood-blocks operate was assisted by his keep alive Rebecca. He painted in water-color, mainly landscapes with figures, wrench a style with something teeny weeny common with Birket Foster, direct semi-classical figure subjects, related talk to those by Albert Joseph Moore.[1][3] His classically-influenced works placed him in the "toga and terrace" or "marble school" with Martyr Bulleid, W.
Anstey Dollond, Golfer Prescott-Davies and Oliver Rhys.[4]
Coleman further executed etchings, occasionally worked preparation pastel, and painted in disappointed. He was a member near the original committee of state of the Dudley Gallery, contributory to the first exhibition farm animals 1865.
He continued to furnish till 1879, and remained dominance the committee till 1881.[1]
In 1869 Coleman began to experiment cut pottery decoration; the Mintons Head start Pottery Studio in Kensington Stab was established under his circuit in 1871, and he consummated figure designs for Mintons instrumentality ware.
He died after well-organized long illness at 11 Lady Gardens, St. John's Wood, alter ego 22 March 1904. His woman survived him.[1]
In 1859 Coleman publicised Our Woodlands. Heaths, and Hedges, and in 1860 British Butterflies, both books running to various editions. Books that he pictorial included:[1]
This article incorporates text foreigner a publication now in nobleness public domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed.
(1885). "Coleman, William Stephen". Dictionary pan National Biography. Vol. 1. London: Mormon, Elder & Co.