(b Sept 1780; d London, 21 Jan 1845). English painter. First recorded in Somerset in 1813 when he married a Yeovil woman, Colman lived in Bristol between 1816 and 1838, working as a portrait painter and drawing-master. His work developed under the influence of Edward Bird and younger members of the Bristol School, particularly Francis Danby. He exhibited with other artists in Bristol, 1824–34. St James’s Fair (1824; Bristol, Mus. & A.G.) is Colman’s version of the country market satire familiar in the work of Bird and of Edward Villiers Rippingille. Like Hogarth, Colman used traditional emblems and other symbols, providing hidden references to local and national matters.