Roger Fry
English artist and art critic (1866-1934)
Alfred Sisley
British painter (1839-1899)
Alfred Sisleywas an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en plein air (i.e., outdoors).
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Aline-Frances Sisley
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Marie-Louise Adelaide-Eugenie Lescouezec
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Jeanne Sisley
Pierre Sisley
About the Alfred Sisley
Alfred Sisleywas an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en plein air (i.e., outdoors). He deviated into figure painting only rarely and, unlike Renoir and Pissarro, he found that Impressionism fulfilled his artistic needs.
Among his important works are a series of paintings of the River Thames, mostly around Hampton Court, executed in 1874, and landscapes depicting places in or near Moret-sur-Loing. The notable paintings of the Seine and its bridges in the former suburbs of Paris are like many of his landscapes, characterised by tranquillity, in pale shades of green, pink, purple, dusty blue and cream. Over the years Sisley’s power of expression and colour intensity increased.
4 Quotes by Alfred Sisley
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Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.
Alfred SisleyBritish painter (1839-1899)
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I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.
Alfred SisleyBritish painter (1839-1899)
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The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.
Alfred SisleyBritish painter (1839-1899)
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Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.
Alfred SisleyBritish painter (1839-1899)