Dividing his time between his home in Courrières and Brittany, he broadened his range of subjects and views – with mounting success.
Millet
This period saw him concentrate on farmworkers toiling in the fields at dusk, and he discovered the coast and people of Brittany.
Is it really futile and impossible to try to paint the wind? Here’s a selection of evidence, drawn from landscapes and marines.
An independent pioneer of ‘social realism’, his densely-populated landscapes showed real people struggling to live in the north French countryside.
How many in the White House know the story of the memorial fountain just opposite – of Butt and Millet, Tennyson, and Oenone?
Gardens aren’t just for flowers, and paintings of vegetable gardens can be just as good art as the most resplendent roses.
Brother of the architect Richard Morris Hunt, he painted portraits of the ‘Boston Brahmins’, then landscapes in Barbizon style.
No other artist was so influential on the last 25 years of painting in the 19th century, although he died when only 36.
He worked his way from rural naturalism, through Impressionism, to a distinctive Post-Impressionism.
Boudin painted independently, having been a major influence on Monet and Impressionism.
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