Rural naturalist, Impressionist, and Pre-Raphaelite styles in portraits, landscapes, genre, and religious paintings: that is versatility.
Bastien-Lepage
He worked his way from rural naturalism, through Impressionism, to a distinctive Post-Impressionism.
Sorolla’s paintings of the seaside are distinctive and some of the greatest essays on light ever completed. He is not just a painter’s painter, but deserves recognition as a true modern Master.
The influence of the Impressionists led Claus from rural realism to his distinctive ‘luminism’ and eventually, whilst in exile in London, to his own variant of impressionism.
The Eclectic Light Company 