Alfred Sisley
(1839 - 1899)
Alfred Sisley (October 30, 1839 – January 29, 1899) was an English Impressionist landscape painter who, apart from a period spent in London in 1857-61 and brief trips to England from 1870 to 1871 (during the Franco-Prussian War) and again in 1874, lived his entire life and worked in France. Alfred Sisley was born on the 30th October 1839, in Paris. His parents were English William Sisley and Felicia Sell. His father William Sisley was a succesful exporter to the USA.
In 1866, he married Eugénie Lesouezec with whom he had two children. Sisley received an allowance from his father. His financial security vanished in 1870 when his father's business failed and his father had lost all his money as a result of the war. Sisley, with a family to support, for the remainder of his life would live in poverty. He now saw himself as a full-time professional painter and part of the Impressionist group, exhibiting with them in 1874, 1876, 1877 and 1882. Sisley died in Moret-sur-Loing at the age of 59, on January 29, 1899 of throat cancer, just a few months after the death of his wife.
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