Today is the birthday (30 October, 1839) a British impressionist painter who spent most of his career in France. He focused almost exclusively on painting landscapes en plein air and never really deviated from impressionism. He lived mostly off the sale of his paintings and, as they were not popular at the time, he lived mostly in poverty, dying in 1899.
I think his paintings are a bit subdued, but I like them. This one, The Meadow, hangs in the National Gallery of Art. Go see it next time you’re in DC.
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