Charles Codman

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This article is about the painter. For the author, see Charles R. Codman.

Charles Codman (circa 1800 - 1842) was a noted landscape painter of Portland, Maine. His art is featured at the Portland Museum of Art as mature, fine early American landscape painting.

Codman was probably from Boston and was apprenticed to the ornamental painter, John Ritto Pennimans. Codman began as a decorative painter and had no formal training but eventually produced mature works of romance and beauty. One of his more important commissions was to design and 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.

His work was "discovered" in 1828 by the contemporary art critic, John Neal (1793-1876).