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[[Image:Constable The Haywain.jpg|200px]] The Hay Wain, 1821.
[[Image:Constable The Haywain.jpg|200px]] The Hay Wain, 1821.
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=== Alfred Sisley ===
[[File:Alfred Sisley Thames at Hampton Court 1874.jpg|thumb|300px|Thames at Hampton Court, 1874.]]
[[Alfred Sisley]] (Paris, 1839 - Moret-sur-Loing, 1899) was an English Impressionist [[landscape]] painter, one of the creators of French [[Impressionism]]; he was born in Paris of English parents, and spent most of his life in France but retained British citizenship. While living in Paris, he met [[Monet]], [[Renoir]] and [[Jean-Frédéric Bazille]]. He exhibited with the Impressionist group in 1874, 1876, 1877 and 1882.
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In the 1870s he produced a remarkable series of landscapes of Argenteuil, where he was living, one of which, The Bridge at Argenteuil (1872; Brooks Memorial Gallery, Memphis, USA) was bought by Manet. Towards the end of the decade Monet was beginning to have a considerable influence on him, and a series of landscape paintings of the area around Paris, including Marly, Bougival and Louveciennes (1876; Floods at Port-Marly, Musée d'Orsay), shows the way in which his dominent and evident lyricism still respects the demands of the subject-matter. <ref> [http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/sisley Sisley, Alfred.]</ref>
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