SNOWY LANDSCAPE - HENRY MARKO' - (1855 - 1921)

Oil painting on canvas depicting a snowy landscape. Work of excellent quality and in excellent condition, still accompanied by its original frame. Signed lower left. The dimensions are; 40 x 54 including the frame, 27 x 42 the canvas alone. Henry Markò born in Florence in 1855 is a landscape and marine painter of considerable sensitivity, undoubtedly linked to the late nineteenth-century pictorial tradition with romantic touches. A descendant of the pictorial dynasty headed by the Austrian Andrea Markò painted, between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a series of works characterized by a skillful scenographic layout: rare seascapes of the Ligurian Riviera, bright and very detailed in execution, numerous woodland landscapes, sometimes animated by figures, and frequent views of cities such as Florence, Rome, Genoa, Sestri Levante, which demonstrate his constant work throughout the national territory, thus coming into contact with the most illustrious pictorial personalities of the time, including, as reported in some publications, the Ligurian painter Antonio Discovolo (1876-1956) without, however, being influenced from a pictorial point of view. Much of his activity takes place in Tuscany, especially in Florence, where, moreover, Andrea Markò and Carlo Markò the younger, continued the landscape school founded by their father Carlo Markò the elder (1791-1860). A school that represented at that time the most advanced pictorial demands in the field of modern landscape painting, before the advent of the "revolutionary" Tuscan Macchiaioli movement. In fact, the work of Andrea and his disciples derived, in particular, from the Art of Calame and the Barbizon school. Henry Markò in the final part of his artistic career, moved permanently to Liguria, to Lavagna, where he favored a local landscape. His works are in numerous private collections, in Italy and abroad.