Alfred Sisley ( París , October 30 of 1839 - Moret-sur-Loing January 29 of 1899) was a painter Impressionist ex British .
English father, was sent to England to learn the language and conduct trade studies, contrary to their wishes art. Began to paint as an amateur and enters the studio where he met Charles Gleyre Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Frédéric Bazille . Franco-Prussian War of 1870 ruined his family and forced to march Sisley London. Decide then be painter. In 1874 he exhibited at the first exhibition of Impressionist and continue doing 1876, 1877 and 1882.
Sisley was essentially a landscape painter, who distinguished himself from his colleagues Impressionists by the decisive intervention in his paintings of the most imponderables: water, snow, sky, fog, so that has been considered, along with Monet, one of the purest
Impressionists. Among 1872 and 1880 made the best of his work: landscapes of great spontaneity near Paris, Marly, Louveciennes, Bougival, Sèvres, Saint-Cloud and Meudon.
Sisley never achieved the popularity of most of his fellow Impressionists and lived in misery from the moment they stopped receiving financial support from her wealthy family. This situation occurred because the collapse of the family business in 1871. He died as he lived in poverty before his pictures look like that in harrowing moments of hardship had sold at ridiculous prices, soon after his death began to be appreciated by critics and audiences and reaching high prices in the art market.
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