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Alfred Sisley

1839 - 1899

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Alfred Sisley (; French: [sislɛ]; 30 October 1839 – 29 January 1899) was 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred Sisley is the 76th most popular painter (up from 80th in 2019), the 226th most popular biography from France (up from 232nd in 2019) and the 19th most popular French Painter.

Alfred Sisley is most famous for his paintings of the French countryside.

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Among painters, Alfred Sisley ranks 76 out of 2,023. Before him are Ilya Repin, Frans Hals, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Henri Rousseau, Pietro Perugino, and Rogier van der Weyden. After him are Gustave Doré, Bob Ross, Jackson Pollock, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, and Georges Seurat.

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Among people born in 1839, Alfred Sisley ranks 6. Before him are Paul Cézanne, John D. Rockefeller, Sully Prudhomme, Modest Mussorgsky, and Jamsetji Tata. After him are Charles Sanders Peirce, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Carol I of Romania, George Armstrong Custer, Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria, and Nikolay Przhevalsky. Among people deceased in 1899, Alfred Sisley ranks 2. Before him is Johann Strauss II. After him are Robert Bunsen, Leo von Caprivi, Félix Faure, Paul Reuter, Rosa Bonheur, Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma, Ernest Chausson, Sophus Lie, Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia, and Horatio Alger.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alfred Sisley ranks 226 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis XI of France (1423), François-René de Chateaubriand (1768), Carloman I (751), Brigitte Macron (1953), Henry Cavendish (1731), and Alexis de Tocqueville (1805). After him are Gustave Doré (1832), Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (1713), Michel Platini (1955), Louis, Grand Dauphin (1661), Joseph Bonaparte (1768), and Gabriel Fauré (1845).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Alfred Sisley ranks 19. Before him are Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864), Georges Braque (1882), Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684), Jean-François Millet (1814), Théodore Géricault (1791), and Henri Rousseau (1844). After him are Gustave Doré (1832), Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796), Georges Seurat (1859), Berthe Morisot (1841), François Boucher (1703), and Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732).

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