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Alfred Sisley was a British-born French Impressionist landscape painter. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en plein air (outdoors); he deviated into figure painting only rarely and, unlike Renoir and Pissarro, he found that Impressionism fulfilled his artistic needs.
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culture · 19th-century French painter · painter · etcher · lithographer · visual artist · also Alfred Sisley, Arthur Sisley, a. sisley, Sisley, alfred sissley, sisley a.
Born 30 October 1839 · Died 29 January 1899 · Q175130
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A dispute erupted between Alain Dreyfus, an art dealer in Switzerland, and the auction house Christie's over a Sisley painting First Day of Spring in Moret, that was claimed by the Lindon family in court in Paris
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The Sisley Bateaux en Réparation à Saint Mammès (1885) was recognised as having been looted by the Nazis and the subject of a settlement with the heirs of Benno and Frances Bernstein who had owned it before Nazi occupat
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A dispute erupted between Alain Dreyfus, an art dealer in Switzerland, and the auction house Christie's over a Sisley painting First Day of Spring in Moret, that was claimed by the Lindon family in court in Paris
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When on loan in Marseilles (recovered a few days later in the city's sewers), again in 1998 (when the museum's curator was convicted of the theft and jailed for five years with two accomplices), and finally in August 200
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Died 1899-01-29.
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Sisley applied for French citizenship, but was refused
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Sisley and his partner visited Britain again and finally were married in Wales at Cardiff Register Office on 5 August
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Sisley made a second brief voyage to Great Britain
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After the first independent Impressionist exhibition
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And landscapes depicting places in or near Moret-sur-Loing
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With the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, Sisley's father's business failed and the painter had to depend on the sale of his works as his sole means of support
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His paintings were accepted at the Salon, but the exhibition did not bring him financial or critical success; nor did subsequent exhibitions
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Sisley began a relationship with Eugénie Lescouezec (1834–1898; usually known as Marie Lescouezec), a Breton living in Paris
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Born 1839-10-30.
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