Samuel Colman Art

Samuel Colman (19th Century) A view of Bullpitts, Bourton and the Hindley factory with the Longpond and Factory pond signed and inscribed oil on canvas 73.7 x 101.6 cm (29 x 40 in) 36 x 46 in - including frame Daniel Maggs' flax mill on the River Stour at Bourton, Somerset Oil painting on canvas 29 x 40 inches Signed lower left and inscribed “Yeovil” Provenance: by family descent (the ancestors of the last owner are depicted on the left) Samuel Colman was born in Yeovil in September 1780, the son of Robert and Mary Colman. He was baptised at the Independent chapel, Princes Street, on 12 August 1813 at the age of 33 (a legal requirement for Dissenters). Just a few weeks later, at St John's church , he married Mary Cayme, the youngest daughter of James Cayme the elder, a dowlas and ticking maker with a manufacturing facility in Grope Lane, today's Wine Street. Both the local newspapers - the Western Flying Post and the Dorchester & Sherborne Journal - printed marriage notices simply describing Samuel as "Mr Col(e)man, artist". It would appear that Samuel and Mary soon moved to Bristol and in 1816 he was advertising himself as a portrait painter and drawing master in Bristol trade directories. They lived in Paul Street, off Portland Square and about 1826 they had a son, William...