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Charles Codman (1800 – September 11, 1842) was an American painter. A native of
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at Portland Museum of Art 1800 births 1842 deaths Artists from Portland, Maine American landscape painters American marine artists 19th-century American painters American male painters 19th-century American male artists {{US-painter-1800s-stub
Charles Codman (1800 – September 11, 1842) was an American painter. A native of Portland, Maine
Portland is the List of municipalities in Maine, most populous city in the U.S. state of Maine and the county seat, seat of Cumberland County, Maine, Cumberland County. Portland's population was 68,408 at the 2020 census. The Portland metropolit ...
, he was known for his landscape
A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or human-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes th ...
and marine paintings.
Career
Codman was apprenticed to the ornamental painter John Ritto Penniman, where he began as a decorative painter with no formal training. He is classified as a limner. He eventually produced more mature works of romanticized landscape views. One of his more important commissions was to paint five fireboards (decorative panels placed over hearths during the summertime) in the landscape style for the Portland mansion of shipbuilder James Deering. He also filled commissions for both portraiture and decorative arts. In 1827 Codman received the first informed criticism of his work by eccentric and influential writer and criticJohn Neal
John Neal (August 25, 1793 – June 20, 1876) was an American writer, critic, editor, lecturer, and activist. Considered both eccentric and influential, he delivered speeches and published essays, novels, poems, and short stories between the 1 ...
. As his greatest promoter, and through his connections, Neal was likely most responsible for Codman becoming as established, patronized painter.
Codman died on September 11, 1842, in Portland, Maine. He is buried in Eastern Cemetery.
Today, Codman's work can be found in various museums and institutions such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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, the Brooklyn Museum
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, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum
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.
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at Portland Museum of Art 1800 births 1842 deaths Artists from Portland, Maine American landscape painters American marine artists 19th-century American painters American male painters 19th-century American male artists {{US-painter-1800s-stub