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Alfred Sisley

Alfred Sisley (30 October 1839 – 29 January 1899) was an English Impressionist landscape painter who was born, and spent most of his life, in France. Sisley is generally recognized as the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en plein air (i.e., outdoors).
Sisley was born in Paris to affluent English parents. His father William Sisley was in the silk business, and his mother Felicia Sell was a cultivated music connoisseur. In 1857, at the age of 18, Sisley was sent to London to study for a career in business, but he abandoned it after four years and returned to Paris in 1861. Beginning in 1862 he studied at the atelier of Swiss artist Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre, where he became acquainted with Frédéric Bazille, Claude Monet, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Together they would paint landscapes en plein air rather than in the studio, in order to realistically capture the transient effects of sunlight.
In 1868 his paintings were accepted at the Salon, but the exhibition did not bring him any financial or critical success, and neither did any of the subsequent exhibitions. The Franco-Prussian War began in 1870, and as a result, Sisley’s father’s business failed. The painter’s sole means of support became the sale of his works. For the remainder of his life, he would live in poverty, for his paintings only rose significantly in monetary value after his death. Occasionally, however, Sisley would be backed up by his patrons: this allowed him, among other things, to make a few brief trips to England.
Until 1880, Sisley lived and worked in the countryside west of Paris; then Sisley and his family moved to a small village near Moret-sur-Loing, close to the forest of Fontainebleau where the painters of the Barbizon school had worked earlier in the century. Here, as art historian Anne Poulet has said, “the gentle landscapes with their constantly changing atmosphere were perfectly attuned to his talents. Unlike Monet, he never sought the drama of the rampaging ocean or the brilliantly colored scenery of the Côte d’Azur. In 1881 Sisley made one more brief voyage to England.
The painter died in Moret-sur-Loing at the age of 59, just a few months after the death of his wife.

Alfred Sisley – Portrait by Renoir
Oil on canvas, ▼

The aqueduct at Marly, 1874
Oil on canvas,
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, USA ▼

The fourteenth of July at Marly-le-Roi, 1875
Oil on canvas,
Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford, UK ▼

Molesey Weir – Morning, 1874
Oil on canvas,
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK ▼

Regatta at Hampton Court, 1874
Oil on canvas,
Foundation E.G. Buhrle Collection, Zurich, Switzerland ▼

Regattas at Molesey, 1874
Oil on canvas,
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France ▼

Lane near a small town, 1865
Oil on canvas,
Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany ▼

Village street in Marlotte, 1866
Oil on canvas,
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA ▼

Women going to the woods, 1866
Oil on canvas,
Bridgestone Museum, Tokyo, Japan ▼

View of montmartre from the cité des Fleurs, 1869
Oil on canvas,
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Grenoble, France ▼

The Saint-Martin canal in Paris, 1870
Oil on canvas,
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France ▼

Early snow at Louveciennes, 1872
Oil on canvas,
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA ▼

Square in Argenteuil, 1872
Oil on canvas,
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France ▼

Boulevard Héloïse, Argenteuil, 1872
Oil on canvas,
The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA ▼

Footbridge at Argenteuil, 1872
Oil on canvas,
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France ▼

La Grande-Rue, Argenteuil, 1872
Oil on canvas,
Castle Museum, Norwich, UK ▼

Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne, 1872
Oil on canvas,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA ▼

Under the bridge at Hampton Court, 1874
Oil on canvas,
Kunstmuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland ▼

Bridge at Hampton Court, 1874
Oil on canvas,
Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Köln, Germany ▼

The lesson, 1874
Oil on canvas. Private collection ▼

Foggy morning, Voisins, 1874
Oil on canvas,
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France ▼

Snow on the road, Louveciennes, 1874
Oil on canvas,
Private collection ▼

Frost in Louveciennes, 1873
Oil on canvas,
The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia ▼

The machine at Marly, 1873
Oil on canvas,
NY Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark ▼

Garden path in Louveciennes, 1873
Oil on canvas,
Private collection ▼

Village on the banks of the Seine, 1872
Oil on canvas,
The Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia ▼

Ferry to the Ile-de-la-Loge – Flood, 1872
Oil on canvas,
Ny Carlsberg-Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark ▼

The island of Saint-Denis, 1872
Oil on canvas,
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France ▼

The Saint-Martin canal, 1872
Oil on canvas,
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France ▼

The Ile Saint-Denis, 1872
Oil on canvas,
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France ▼

Sentier de la Mi-côte, Louveciennes, 1873
Oil on canvas,
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France ▼

Rue de la Princesse, Louveciennes, 1873
Oil on canvas,
Private collection ▼

Chemin de la Machine, Louveciennes, 1873
Oil on canvas,
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France ▼

Sand on the Quayside, Port Marly, 1875
Oil on canvas,
Private collection ▼

Snow at Louveciennes, 1875
Oil on canvas,
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France ▼

View of Marly-le-Roi – Sunshine, 1876
Oil on canvas,
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada ▼

Flood at Port-Marly, 1876
Oil on canvas,
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France ▼

Boat in the flood at Port-Marly, 1876
Oil on canvas, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France ▼

Market place at Marly, 1876
Oil on canvas,
Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany ▼

The Seine at suresnes, 1877
Oil on canvas,
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France ▼

Barges in Billancourt, 1877
Oil on canvas,
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia ▼

Station at Sèvres, 1879
Oil on canvas,
Private collection ▼

Orchard in Spring – By, 1881
Oil on canvas,
Boymans-van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands ▼

Small meadows in spring – By, 1881
Oil on canvas,
National Gallery, London, UK ▼

The garden of Hoschede. Montgeron, 1881
Oil on canvas,
The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia ▼

Windy day at Veneux, 1882
Oil on canvas,
The Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia ▼

River banks at St. Mammes, 1884
Oil on canvas,
The Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia ▼

The canal du Loing at St. Mammes, 1885
Oil on canvas,
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA ▼

Snow scene, Moret station, 1888
Pastel,
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK ▼

Moret-sur-Loing, 1891
Oil on canvas,
Private collection ▼

The canal du Loing at Moret, 1892
Oil on canvas,
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France ▼

The bridge at Moret, 1893
Oil on canvas,
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France ▼

Bristol Channel from Penarth, Evening, 1897
Oil on canvas,
▼ Allen Memorial Art Gallery, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, USA

Langland Bay, Storr’s Rock – Morning, 1897
Oil on canvas,
Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland ▼

Regatta at Hampton Court, 1874
Oil on canvas ▼