Nikola Marković (painter)

Nikola Marković (in Cyrillic Serbian: Никола Марковић; born in 1843 in Požarevac and died in 1889 in Belgrade) is a Serbian painter. He mostly painted icons. In 1870 he became a member of the Serbian Learned Society (Srpsko učeno društvo; abbreviated as SUD), now the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Works

The life and art of the painters belonging to the Marković family -- Milija and his sons Radovan and Nikola -- are well-known to art historians. Nikola Marković's iconostases are found in Knjazevac, Veliko Orasje,Grocka, and other places:

• Iconostasis of the church of the monastery of Bogovađa (Lajkovac) (in collaboration with his father Milija and his brother Radovan), 1858  ;
• Iconostasis of the Church of the Holy Trinity in Gornji Milanovac, 1862  ;
• Iconostasis of the Saint-Gabriel church of Aranđelovac ;
• Iconostasis of the Church of the Shroud of the Mother of God of Valjevo, 1865  ;
• Iconostasis of the Saint-Constantin-et-Sainte-Hélène church in Koceljeva (in collaboration), 1871  ;
• Iconostasis of the Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul of Topčider (in collaboration with Stevan Todorović), 1874  ;
• Iconostasis of the church of the Petkovica monastery (Šabac).