Emile van Marcke

Training under Constant Troyon is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are landscape. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Works named in the authority record are Boer met honden. Work by Emile van Marcke is recorded in the collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK) and National Galleries Scotland. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour.

He studied under Troyon at Barbizon. He received the cross of the Legion of Honor in 1872 and a gold medal at the Paris exhibition. He is represented at the Louvre and other museums of France, and at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida, and in other public and private collections in the United States. Typical of his work is the public domain image Summer Pastoral, Bresle Valley on this page reproduced courtesy of the Morton Collection. This gem-like work offers the favorite themes of van Marcke in a microcosm; it incorporates cattle, water, reflections, dramatic cloudscapes and a feeling of life and motion and verdant nature. Nature is idyllic and animals emblematic of that harmony.

His recorded language was French. He was the child of Jules van Marcke and Julie Palmyre Van Marcke-Robert. One child is recorded: Marie Diéterle. Other recorded relations include Louis-Rémy Robert, Charles Emmanuel Clément van Marcke de Lummen, Édouard van Marcke and Charles Emmanuel Clément Van Marcke De Lummen (son).

Emile van Marcke is recorded with the occupation porcelain painter. Classed in the genre landscape painting. Recorded as painter, printmaker and farmer.