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See also:ALFRED See also:SISLEY (1840-1899) , See also:French landscape painter, was See also:born in See also:Paris in 1839, of See also:English parents . He studied See also:painting under See also:Gleyre, and was afterwards influenced, first by See also:Corot, and then by the impressionists See also:Monet and See also:Renoir . He worked both in See also:France and in See also:England, and made the See also:Seine, the Loing and the See also:Thames the subjects of many pictures that are remarkable for the subtle appreciation of the most delicate See also:colour effects . Success was not given him during his See also:life, which was one of See also:constant poverty and hard struggle . Purchasers of his pictures were few and far between, although the prices rarely exceeded a few pounds . Only after his See also:death, which occurred at Moret-sur-Loing in 1899, did his See also:work find appreciation, and at the Viau See also:sale in Paris, in 1907, his small painting of " The Seine at See also:Port-Marly " realized £652, whilst ten other landscapes sold at prices ranging from £200 to £400 . He was essentially a colourist who, like Monet, delighted in recording the changing effects of See also:light in the successive See also:hours of the See also:day, and paid very little See also:attention to See also:composition and draughtsmanship . The impressionist See also:exhibition at the See also:Grafton Galleries, See also:London, in 1905, included several characteristic examples of his work . See also:Sisley iss.lso represented at the Luxembourg in the Caillebotte collection . |
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