Alfred Sisley · 1839–1899
Alfred Sisley
Alfred Sisley (1839-1899) was a British painter active in France and one of the Impressionists. He devoted himself almost entirely to landscape, painting the scenery around Paris all his life.
Alfred Sisley was born in Paris to English parents and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and in the studio of the history painter Charles Gleyre. In Gleyre's studio he met Monet and Renoir and moved toward Impressionism.
Like Pissarro, he devoted himself almost entirely to landscape and kept painting the scenery around Paris all his life. He took an active part in the Impressionist movement, but few apart from his colleagues and some dealers valued him, and after a long illness he died in Moret-sur-Loing. In Japan, Cows in a Meadow, Louveciennes and Lady's Cove, Langland Bay, Wales are held.
Alfred Sisley was born on October 30, 1839 and died on January 29, 1899.
