Helen Cordelia Angell

Helen Cordelia Angell, née Coleman (1847 – 1884) was an English watercolour painter.

Biography

Angell was the fifth daughter of the twelve children of Henrietta Dendy and William Thomas Coleman, a physician. She was schooled at home. Along with her sister, pottery artist Rose Rebecca Coleman, she learned painting and drawing from their older brother William Stephen Coleman, who kept an art pottery studio in South Kensington. She married Thomas William Angell on 15 October 1874. He was a postmaster and an amateur artist. Before his death, watercolor painter William Henry Hunt named Coleman his only successor. Her work can be found in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum.

Angell died from uterine cancer at the age of 37 on 8 March 1884.