What is Alfred Sisley?
{{Infobox artist | name = Alfred Sisley | image = Alfred_Sisley_photo_full.jpg | image_size = 220px | caption = Alfred Sisley in 1882 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1839|10|30|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Paris]], [[France]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|1899|1|29|1839|10|30|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Moret-sur-Loing]], France | nationality = British | field = [[Painting]] | training = [[Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre]] | movement = [[Impressionism]] | works = | patrons = | awards = }} [[Image:Sisley Molesey Weir-Morning.jpg|thumb|250px|''Molesey Weir – Morning'', one of the paintings executed by Sisley on his trip to England in 1874]] [[Image:Alfred Sisley 062.jpg|thumb|250px|''Flood at Port-Marly'' (1876)]] '''Alfred Sisley''' (30 October 1839 – 29 January 1899) was an [[English people|English]] [[Impressionism|Impressionist]] [[landscape]] [[Painting|painter]]. He was a [[British people|British]] [[citizen]], but was born, and spent most of his life, in [[France]]. Sisley is known for his Impressionist landscapes painted ''en plein air'', that is, outdoors. He never went into [[portrait]] painting and continued in the impressionist style all his career. Among his most important works are a series of paintings of the River [[River Thames|Thames]], mostly around [[Hampton Court]], painted in 1874, and various paintings showing places in or near [[Moret-sur-Loing]]. ==Biography== Sisley was born in [[Paris]] to rich English parents. His father William Sisley was in the [[silk]] business, and his mother Felicia Sell enjoyed music. In 1857, at the age of 18, Sisley was sent to [[London]] to study for a career in business, but he gave it up after four years and returned to Paris. In 1862 he studied at the [[studio|atelier]] of [[Swiss]] artist [[Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre]], where he met [[Frédéric Bazille]], [[Claude Monet]], and [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]]. Together they would paint landscapes in the open rather th