Silvio Poma (1840-1932) - Paesaggio Lacustre (Lago Maggiore)

Important painting by

Silvio Poma

Lakeside Landscape (Lago Maggiore)

Authentic work, certified in accordance with the law, published.

Museum-quality work - Verist painting
Oil painting on canvasboard from the early 1900s.

Poma Silvio
Trescore Balneario, 1840 – Turate, 1932

Silvio Poma was an Italian painter considered one of the greatest landscape artists of Lombard Verismo in the late 19th century.

Born in Trescore Balneario on January 8, 1840, the painter had the opportunity to fully experience the cultural and artistic currents of that era, although he was also very active in other fields, especially at the military level.

Having moved to Milan at the age of six with his family – his father was politically active as a government commissioner of Austria – he had the opportunity to graduate there, and following his diploma, he committed himself at a military level by actively participating in the Second War of Independence alongside his brother Giacomo, on the side of the Piedmontese army.

This military career was very important in the early part of his life, so much so that, after the Unification, he became a second lieutenant in the campaign against brigandage.

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 he had the chance to see in person. Although he later re-enlisted for the Third War of Independence, Silvio Poma decided to completely leave the army in 1869, a date that marks the beginning of the artistic phase of his life.

He continued to draw and study in the artistic field, then participating in some exhibitions like the one at Brera – where he presented two oil paintings – and continuing his self-taught study.

Silvio Poma was passionate about Verismo, to the extent that he closely followed Gianbattista Lelli, considered one of the most famous masters of the Verist landscape. However, the landscape loved by Poma is a landscape that is, in fact, recognized by everyone for its historical and literary particularities, and his works are proof of this.

Success arrived when he was 36 years old, marking the beginning of an important phase in the painter's life, characterized by exhibition abilities that earned him recognition in various exhibitions, such as the Fine Arts Exhibition in Naples, as well as those in Brera.

The painter died in Turate in 1932.

Museum-quality artwork, very rare, set in a contemporary frame.

Work of extreme refinement and grace. In good preservation condition despite its age.
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Measurements: 56 x 47 cm in frame.
Cardboard board with a laminate surface: 32 x 21 cm

The painting is in good condition — the frame shown in the photo will be included as a gift.

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