biography
pronunciation:
[peesaroh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1830–1903)
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| biography:
| Impressionist artist, born in St Thomas, West Indies. He went to Paris (1855), where he was much influenced by Corot's landscapes. Most of his works were painted in the countryside round Paris, such as ‘Boulevard Montmartre’ (1897, National Gallery, London). The leader of the original Impressionists, he was the only one to exhibit at all eight of the Group exhibitions in Paris from 1874 to 1886. He also experimented with Divisionism. |
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