Alfred Sisley

Alfred Sisley The Impressionistic landscape painter Alfred Sisley was born on 30 October 1839 – 29 January 1899) and lived much of his time in France but kept his British citizenship. He was the Impressionism who drew landscapes outside the studio the most frequently (i.e., outdoors). Unlike Renoir and Pissarro, he rarely wandered into figure painting and discovered that Impressionism satisfied his artistic requirements. A sequence of pictures he completed in 1874 of the River Thames, mainly in the region around Hampton Court, and landscape pictures of locations in or close to Moret-sur-Loing are among his major works. Like many...
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