Michallon taught Camille Corot, who in turn taught Camille Pissarro. In their early Impressionist years, Pissarro painted alongside CĂ©zanne.
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Two hundred years ago today, Achille Michallon died, the most brilliant landscape painter of his day in Europe. He was only 25.
A brilliant landscape painter taught by Valenciennes, who in turn taught Corot. Died at the age of only 25 from pneumonia.
Probably the best-known of those who showed work at the First Impressionist Exhibition, he was an influential art critic, writer and painter, best remembered now for his sculpture.
One of the prolific engravers and print-makers who was part of the revival in print-making in France, but he had a dark side too.
More accomplished as a print-maker, his views of the beach at Berck are desolate. A good friend of Degas, he exhibited at the Salon, so dropped from the 3rd exhibition.
One of the five ‘fathers’ of Impressionist, his style became painterly in the 1860s and he exhibited at the Salon until 1870 and in four Impressionist Exhibitions.
A close friend of Pissarro, he painted in company with him, CĂ©zanne, and Guillaumin in the country close to Pontoise, but stopped exhibiting after 1881.
A French Impressionist, he painted alongside Pissarro and CĂ©zanne, and was key in introducing Pissarro to Seurat and Neo-Impressionism.
An amateur artist until 1883, he was a collector and patron, and continued to show his work at each of the Impressionist Exhibitions until 1886.
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