October 30th, 1839 in a place called France was where a painter was born, Alfred Sisley. The Franco German war financially ruined the Sisley family's lives! However Alfred Sisley still decided to make paintings even though they were in poverty for the rest of his precious life.
Alfred Sisley made his first trip to England, where he got inspired from landscape painters |
Avenue of Chestnut Trees near La Celle Saint-Cloud (Southampton)
Sisley joined other impressionist artists (impressionist art is painting that seeks to re-create the artist's or viewer's general impression of a scene. |
Alfred created a painting in 1868 called "Avenue of Chestnut Trees near La Celle Saint-Cloud (Southampton)" , That painting drew a lot of attention, and of all the impressionist artist out their Sisley's paintings were the "purest" ones! |
However later on Alfred died from throat cancer on January 29, 1899, in Moret-sur-Loing, France |