Fog: Pissarro to Ury

With Monet’s grainstacks and fog on the River Thames, by the 20th century the effects of fog had become part of Western landscape painting.

After The Rain: The Impressionist streets of Lesser Ury, 2

Street scenes, wet roads, at night, café interiors, and busy railway stations in the dark – some of his best paintings.

After The Rain: The Impressionist streets of Lesser Ury, 1

Decidedly Post-Impressionist, his loose style and rough facture did not impress the critics at first. Painting a mixture of landscapes and scenes from the centre of Berlin, he was still looking for the right formula.

A painter’s changing streets: cycles and cars

Manet’s remarkably early painting of a cyclist dates from 1871, but the Impressionists appear to have ignored the new kings of the road.