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In his own time Marco Ricci was a popular landscape painter, highly appreciated, particularly in England, but with the passage of time his person and his works were forgotten and it was only after the exhibition in Belluno (1963) that his place in Venetian Settecento painting could be correctly estimated. The landscapes painted in his youth under the influence of Magnasco — the Budapest picture is probably of that period — are full of passion. In Ricci's pictures representations of a stormy sea, of trees torn by the wind, of a sailboat tossed by angry waters and foaming waves are not infrequent. Harsh illumination and lightning-like greenish lights enhance the dramatic effect.
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