Charles Coleman (English painter)
Charles Coleman was a British landscape and animal painter, born in Pontefract, in Yorkshire, England. He was active principally in Rome, where was an important influence on Nino Costa and made a significant contribution to the formation of the Campagna Romana School of painting.
Charles Coleman, etching of transhumant shepherds in the Campagna Romana, showing sheep, a working dog of Pastore Maremmano-Abruzzese type, horses of Maremmano type and a conical capanna or lestra; from A Series of Subjects peculiar to the Campagna of Rome and Pontine Marshes (1850)
Pontefract is a historic market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, east of Wakefield and south of Castleford. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is one of the towns in the City of Wakefield district and had a population of 30,881 at the 2011 Census. Pontefract's motto is Post mortem patris pro filio, Latin for "After the death of the father, support the son", a reference to the town's Royalist sympathies in the English Civil War. Small villages and settlements in the immediate area include Stapleton.
Pontefract Market Place
Painting of Pontefract Castle in the early 17th century by Alexander Keirincx
The new church within the old. After All Saints' Church was damaged during the civil war a new one was built within.
Pontefract Town Hall, now used as a registry office
