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| Detroit Evening Times, April 17, 1911 |
One major reason that I have focused on Thomas Jerome is that in the early days of his and Freer's first purchasing Villa Castello in Capri there was talk of setting up a branch of the Yondotega Club at Sorrento. In a way they did, as many of their friends paid visits and other artists, politicos, writers and dignitaries joined them at times.
The entire purpose of Jerome's position as consulate - as appointed by his fellow Yondotega Club member Senator James McMillan - was his permanent removal to Capri, though there's no certainty that he would have stayed if he hadn't died at the age of 50, a decade after moving there.
One artist who had ties to Detroit through his friendships though no extraneous connections was Charles Caryl Coleman, an expatriate from New York who lived on the island for 50 years. His painting of Jerome's garden The Garden of the Villa Castello, Capri from 1907 was bought and donated to the Detroit Institute of Arts by the aforementioned Detroiters.
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