Back in Paris in 1860, Sisley began studying art at the studio of Charles Gleyre, a conservative painter whose classes nevertheless attracted several of the future creators of Impressionism. Turner, whose late paintings almost did away with representation in favor of pure patterns of light.

Instead, Sisley spent his time studying the great English landscape painters of the time, including John Constable and the proto-Impressionist J.M.W. Sisley was brought up in Paris, and in 1857 he was sent to London, England, to live with relatives, improve his English, and prepare for the business career his parents had planned for him. Both English (SIS-lee) and French (sees-LEI) pronunciations of his name were current during his lifetime. He applied twice for French citizenship but was turned down both times. Despite his English name and occasional references to him as 'the English Impressionist,' Alfred Sisley rarely left France, and for many years had only an imperfect grasp of English. William Sisley was the manager of a company that made artificial flowers. Born to English ParentsĪlfred Sisley was born in Paris, France, on October 30, 1839, to William and Felicia Sisley, cousins from England. It was only when Sisley's paintings were reassembled into large museum exhibitions that the dimensions of his achievement became apparent his subtle grasp of detail and effect was almost the equal of Monet's, and his impact on future landscape painters, many of them American, was strong. While Monet, for example, began to incorporate urban scenes into his art, and Renoir began to specialize in a new kind of portrait, Sisley's style changed little as he moved from town to town and painted the new landscapes he encountered. That consistency of subject matter is partly responsible for the comparative obscurity of Sisley's paintings as compared to the work of other great early Impressionists. He put his own stamp on early Impressionist technique and produced a body of work that art historian Richard Shone called 'fundamentally representative of our notion of what constitutes 'pure' Impressionism.' His output consisted almost entirely of landscapes.

Alfred Sisley (1839–1899) was a key painter of the early Impressionist period, a friend and associate of Claude Monet and Pierre Renoir who matched their pathbreaking experiments with light, color, and brushstroke.

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