Overshadowed by French peers since 1874, artists from the UK, Sweden and elsewhere are gaining in prestige and price
The first generation of French Impressionists — innovative, challenging orthodoxies — ignited latent frustrations in artists of other lands, who took their examples home, creating a blaze of Impressionisms. These offshoots may not fetch the high prices of the founding masters, but they each reflect facets of their inspiration: painting en plein air, using square brushes, a fascination with light, an attraction to incidental scenes of contemporary life.
Rather than revolutionaries, they felt themselves, in the words of leading figure Stanhope Forbes, as part of “one of the distinct waves of feeling which occasionally occur in Art”. They are not especially expensive either, says Haynes: “Our exhibition is about showing accessible Impressionists.
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