[[Image:Renoir Portrait of Alfred Sisley..jpg|90px|left|Renoir Portrait of Alfred Sisley]]
[[Image:Renoir Alfred Sisley and his wife.jpg|180px|right|Alfred Sisley and his wife ''by Renoir'']]
'''Alfred Sisley''' (Paris 1839 - Moret-sur-Loing 1899), [[British]] [[painter]]. In While living in Paris , he met [[Claude Monet|Monet]], [[Renoir]] and [[Jean-Frédéric Bazille]]. Sisley was one of the creators of French Impressionism.
Sisley did not live to see his talent recognized, however, a year after his death, his painting "[http://www.conservapedia.com/Image:Sisley_Flood_at_Port-Marly..jpg Flood at Port-Marly]" (Orsay Museum - Paris) reached a high bidding.
Sisley was exclusively a [[landscape ]] painter, who, in the line of [[Camille Corot]], and with Claude Monet, best sought and succeeded in expressing the most subtle nuances of nature in [[Impressionism|Impressionist]] landscapes. <ref> [http://www.impressionniste.net/sisley_alfred.htm Alfred Sisley] </ref>He exhibited with the Impressionist group in 1874, 1876, 1877 and 1882.
== Gallery ==<blockquote>In 1868, Alfred Sisley's landscape "Avenue of Chestnut Trees near La Celle Saint-Cloud (Southampton)" was shown at the prestigious Salon art exhibition at Paris.<ref>[http://www.biography.com/people/alfred-sisley-9485226 Alfred Sisley - biography.]</ref></blockquote>
== Gallery ==
[[File:Alfred Sisley Thames at Hampton Court 1874.jpg|thumb|300px|"Thames at Hampton Court"]]
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Image:Sisley La Grande-Rue, Argenteuil.jpg|"La Grande-Rue, Argenteuil"
The flood of 1876 at Port-Marly, France, became the subject of a large series of his landscapes
[[Image:Sisley Flood at Port-Marly..jpg|200px|Flood at Port-Marly ]][[Image:Sisley Flood at Port-Marly 2.jpg|200px|Boat in the Flood at Port-Marly ]] He painted 7 [[canvas ]] on this event.
== See also ==
[[File:Renoir Alfred Sisley.jpg|thumb|Alfred Sisley by [[Renoir]].]]
*[[Painting Masterpieces]]
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