Tuscan landscape with a monk in the vicinity of Pisa was executed by listed Italian painter Henry Marko ( 1855-1921). Born in Florence in 1855, he was a landscape painter and marineist of considerable sensitivity, undoubtedly linked to the late nineteenth-century pictorial tradition with romantic hints.Descendant of the painters dynasty that is headed by the Hungarian painters Carlo Marko and his sons CarlMarko Junior and Andreas Marko, between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a series of works characterized by a skillful scenographic plant: Rare marine of the Ligurian Riviera, bright and very detailed in the execution, Numerous woodland landscapes, sometimes animated by figurines, and frequent views of cities such as Florence, Rome, Genoa, Sestri Levante, which demonstrate its constant operation throughout the national territory, coming in contact with the most illustrious Pictorial figures of the time, among which, as some publications have, the Ligurian painter Antonio Dissheafo (1876-1956) without, however, remain influenced by the pictorial point of view.Much of its activity takes place in Tuscany, especially in Florence, where, moreover, Andreas Marko and Carlo Marko the younger, carried on the landscape school founded Dalpadre Carlo marked the Elder (1791-1860). School that represented at that time the most advanced pictorial instances in the ambit of modern landscape painting, before the advent of the "revolutionary" Macchiaiolo Tuscan movement.In fact, the work of Andreas and his disciples stemmed, in particular, from the art of the Calame and the school of Barbizon.Henry Marko in the concluding part of his artistic career, he moved permanently to Liguria, in Lavagna, where he privileges a landscape of local scope.His works in numerous private collections, in Italy and Hungary.

Literature: ADEC, in on-line: http://www.pittoriliguri.info/pittori-liguri/marko-henry/

Inscription: signed lower right.

Technique: oil on canvas. Luxuriousy original gold-plated frame.

Measurements: unframed w 20 1/8" x h 13 1/3" (51 x 34 cm,) framed w 29 1/3" x h 22 5/8" (74,5 x 57,5 cm)

Condition: in good condition.