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Italian Oil Painting on Cardboard Silvio Poma

Creator: Silvio Poma (Attributed)
Offered by: European Antiques & Design

Description
Beautiful oil painting on cardboard late 19th century. A splendid Italian home garden. Silvio Poma important italian artist. Excellent pictorial quality. Sold with wooden frame.
Poma Silvio
(Trescore Balneario, 1840 - Turate, 1932)
Silvio Poma was an Italian painter considered one of the greatest landscape painters of Lombard Verism of the late nineteenth century.

Born in Trescore Balneario on 8 January 1840, the painter was able to fully experience the cultural and artistic currents of that time, even though he was a very active person on other fronts, especially at the military level.

He moved to Milan with his family at the age of six - his father was politically involved as government commissioner of Austria - he was able to graduate here, and following his diploma he became involved in the military, actively participating in the Second War of Independence together with the brother Giacomo, on the side of the Piedmontese army.

This military career was very important in the first phase of his life, so much so that, after Unity, he became a second lieutenant in the campaign against banditry.

It was a disease - malaria - that forced him to leave the military world, and in the Tremiti Islands, he began his first artistic training by drawing landscapes, the same landscapes and places that he had the opportunity to see live. Despite having then re-enlisted for the Third War of Independence, Silvio Poma decided to completely abandon the army in 1869, the date on which the artistic phase of his life can begin.

He continued to draw and study in the artistic field, then participating in some exhibitions such as that of Brera - in which he presented two oil paintings - and continuing his self-taught study.

Silvio Poma was passionate about Verismo, so much so that he closely followed Gianbattista Lelli, considered one of the most famous masters of the realist landscape; the landscape loved by Poma is nevertheless a landscape considered to all effects in its historical and literary peculiarities, and his works are proof of this.

Success came at the age of 36 when an important phase of his life finally began for the painter, surrounded by exhibition skills that gave him credit in various exhibitions, such as the exhibition of fine arts in Naples, as well as in those of Brera.

The painter died in Turate in 1932.
Dimensions
Height: 24.81 in. (63 cm)
Width: 18.9 in. (48 cm)
Depth: 1.19 in. (3 cm)