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On 5 August, they got married at Cardiff Register Office in Wales. In 1897, Alfred and his partner went to Britain. Alfred made another brief trip to Great Britain in 1881. Unlike Monet, Alfred never sought the brilliantly coloured landscape of the Côte d'Azur or the drama caused by the rampaging ocean. The gentle landscapes in this region - with their ever-changing atmosphere - were well attuned to the painter's talents. Later, he moved with his family to a small village located close to Moret-sur-Loing, which is located near the forest of Fontainebleau (which lies 60 kilometres southeast of Paris), where the artists of the Barbizon school used to work earlier. Until 1880, Alfred worked and lived in the country located west of Paris.
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The results of the few months that Alfred spent near London was his series of around 20 paintings showing the Upper River Thames near Molesey district. However, patrons backed Alfred from time to time, allowing him to make brief trips to Britain, with the first trip happening in 1874. For the remainder of Alfred's life, he lived in poverty because his works didn't rise significantly in financial value until after the painter died. In 1870, the Franco-German War started consequently, Alfred father's silk business failed, and the artist's sole means of support was now selling his paintings. His works were accepted at the Paris Salon in 1868, but the exhibition and subsequent exhibitions didn't bring him critical or financial success. At this time, Alfred lived close to the Café Guerbois and Avenue de Clichy, which were the gathering places of most of the Parisian painters. In 1866, Alfred started a relationship with Marie Lescouezec (Eugénie Lescouezec), who was a Breton living in Paris, and together they had two children. During the 1860s, however, Alred's father gave him an allowance, which put him in a better position than his fellow artists in terms of finance. The jury of the annual Salon often rejected their works. As a result, Alfred and his three friends first had few opportunities for exhibiting and selling their work. Together, these artists would paint plein air paintings to capture the transitory effects of sunshine realistically.Īt that time, this approach was innovative and led to paintings that were more colourful and broadly painted than what the public was used to seeing. Here, Alfred became acquainted with Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet and Frédéric Bazille. From 1862, Alfred studied at an influential art school called École des Beaux-Arts located in Paris within the studio of Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre, a Swiss artist residing in France. In 1857, his parents sent the then 18-year-old Alfred to London to study business however, in 1861, he abandoned the course and went back to Paris. His mother was Felicia Sell, a cultivated music connoisseur and his father was William Sisley, a businessman specialising in silk. Alfred was born in Paris, France to wealthy British parents.
