Oil Painting On Canvas, "romantic Garden," By Enrique Serra, Signed, Late 19th Century

Oil painting on canvas, "Romantic Garden," by Enrique Serra, signed, Late 19th century

Beautiful and large painting depicting a classic subject of the painter a lake garden, in the painting one can admire the great mastery in the use of color and the landscape technique of light and shadow.

With beautiful frame 

Measurements: Framed H 108 x W 170 x D 6 / Canvas H 83 x W 145 cm

Biography
Arrived in Naples from Barcelona in 1877, then moved to Rome where he concretized his pictorial sensibility in the sunsets, swamps and cowboys of the Roman countryside.
A member of the Accademia di San Luca and the Accademia dell' Arcadia, the pontiff purchased the painting the Virgin of Monserrato for his private collection in 1883.
He also tried his hand at the historical genre, however-as Gian Bistolfi wrote in La Tribuna-his painting The Sacred Tree marks the decisive shift to landscape painting. In particular, it is his predilection for the lake view, mostly devoid of human figures but populated with ruins with a neoclassical flavor, that makes his painting take on an increasingly overtly Symbolist connotation, which finds its ideal subject in the Garden of Ninfa, which he repeatedly portrays. His works are soon recognized as having museum value: as in the case of "Two Friars," preserved in the Glasgow museum, or "Reflections of Sunset on the Marsh," kept at the Corrado Giaquinto picture gallery in Bari. He also stayed in Paris, where he struck a deal with the Goupil & Cie gallery of the famous art dealer Jean-Baptiste Adophe Goupil. Married to an Englishwoman, he moved with her in 1913 to a villa in Mergozzo on Lake Maggiore: an extreme and final confirmation of his penchant for the melancholy and mysterious lake landscape.