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French landscape painter, born in Paris
of English parents. As a pupil in the studio of Swiss painter
Charles Gabriel Gleyre, Sisley met French artists Claude
Monet and Pierre Auguste Renoir,
with whom he founded the impressionist school of painting.
Although Sisley's work attracted little attention in his
lifetime, its importance has since been recognized. Sisley's
gentle, idyllic paintings, mainly of scenes near Paris, reveal
the influence of French painter Camille Corot,
especially in their soft, harmonious colors.
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