diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 2154e3babbb..758a74a9362 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Aaron Coleman
 Abdeali JK
 Abdelrahman Elbehery
 Abhijeet Kasurde
+ace2016
 Adam Johnson
 Adam Stewart
 Adam Uhlir
diff --git a/changelog/13354.improvement.rst b/changelog/13354.improvement.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9b90b284cd2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/13354.improvement.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+:meth:`Node.get_closest_marker <_pytest.nodes.Node.get_closest_marker>` now also accepts a :class:`~pytest.MarkDecorator` as its ``default``, for example ``item.get_closest_marker("foo", pytest.mark.foo(1))``, and returns the wrapped :class:`~pytest.Mark`.
+
+Previously the only way to build a ``default`` was to instantiate :class:`~pytest.Mark` directly, which is private and warns.
diff --git a/src/_pytest/nodes.py b/src/_pytest/nodes.py
index f0629c2daf7..c6d245de6c9 100644
--- a/src/_pytest/nodes.py
+++ b/src/_pytest/nodes.py
@@ -352,15 +352,22 @@ def iter_markers_with_node(
     def get_closest_marker(self, name: str) -> Mark | None: ...
 
     @overload
-    def get_closest_marker(self, name: str, default: Mark) -> Mark: ...
+    def get_closest_marker(self, name: str, default: Mark | MarkDecorator) -> Mark: ...
 
-    def get_closest_marker(self, name: str, default: Mark | None = None) -> Mark | None:
+    def get_closest_marker(
+        self, name: str, default: Mark | MarkDecorator | None = None
+    ) -> Mark | None:
         """Return the first marker matching the name, from closest (for
         example function) to farther level (for example module level).
 
-        :param default: Fallback return value if no marker was found.
+        :param default:
+            Fallback return value if no marker was found. A
+            :class:`~pytest.MarkDecorator` such as ``pytest.mark.foo(1)`` is
+            also accepted, in which case its :class:`~pytest.Mark` is returned.
         :param name: Name to filter by.
         """
+        if isinstance(default, MarkDecorator):
+            default = default.mark
         return next(self.iter_markers(name=name), default)
 
     def listextrakeywords(self) -> set[str]:
diff --git a/testing/test_mark.py b/testing/test_mark.py
index c70376e7015..7cc63a240af 100644
--- a/testing/test_mark.py
+++ b/testing/test_mark.py
@@ -657,6 +657,18 @@ def test_has_inherited(self):
         assert has_inherited_marker.kwargs == {"location": "class"}
         assert has_own.get_closest_marker("missing") is None
 
+    def test_mark_closest_default_mark_decorator(self, pytester: Pytester) -> None:
+        p = pytester.makepyfile(
+            """
+            def test_without_mark():
+                pass
+        """
+        )
+        items, _rec = pytester.inline_genitems(p)
+        (item,) = items
+        default = pytest.mark.foo(location="default")
+        assert item.get_closest_marker("foo", default) is default.mark
+
     def test_mark_with_wrong_marker(self, pytester: Pytester) -> None:
         reprec = pytester.inline_runsource(
             """