Charles Caryl Coleman, a landscape, portrait, and figure painter who lived most of his life in Capri, Italy, was born in 1840. Coleman studied art in his hometown of Buffalo, New York as well as Paris, and returned to America in 1862 to enlist in the Civil War. Coleman went back to Paris in 1866 with fellow artist William Hunt Morris (1824 - 1879). After traveling around France, Spain, and Italy, he settled in Capri. His early work was primarily portraiture and figurative works, while his later work focused more on architectural pieces and the landscape of the Italian island.