Marco Lemmi (February 26, 1834 – 1900) was an Italian photographer and painter, in the latter, mainly of landscapes. He was born in

Livorno Livorno () is a port city on the Ligurian Sea on the western coast of Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Livorno, having a population of 158,493 residents in December 2017. It is traditionally known in English as Leghorn (pronou ...

and studied under the painter

Natale Betti Natale Betti (1826 – 1888) was an Italian painter. Biography He was born in Livorno. He studied art under Giuseppe Baldini at Livorno, then in Rome with Tommaso Minardi, and finally at the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence with Giuseppe Bezzuoli ...

. For some time, he worked in a business, the casa Giamari. He then moved to

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, where he studied under

Antonio Puccinelli Antonio Puccinelli (19 March 1822, Castelfranco di Sotto - 22 July 1897, Florence) was an Italian painter; one of the group known as the "Macchiaioli". Biography He was the son of a tailor and was planning to follow his father in that trade, ...

, and helped complete an altarpiece of ''Sant'Isidoro'', for a church of Sardinia. In 1863, he returned to Livorno painting mainly landscapes and portraits including General Robaudi, Marchese Spinola, and Admiral Chrotien, President of the Republic of Uruguay. He painted ''Rest after the Hunt'' for King Vittorio Emanuele and ''La padula'' for Count cavalliere Tommasi. ''Veduta of San Rossore after the rain'' was bought by the Niemarck, and he painted some works for the King of Spain, Amedeo of Savoy, who awarded him with the order of the knights of Isabel the Catholic.''Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti.''
by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, Page 258.

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19th-century Italian painters 19th-century Italian male artists Artists from the Grand Duchy of Tuscany Italian male painters 1834 births 1900 deaths Painters from Tuscany Italian landscape painters Italian photographers {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub