Claude Monet

Claude Monet (full name Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet) was born on November 14, 1840. He is a famous French impressionist painter. Biography and Career : Claude Monet was born in Paris but spent his childhood on the Channel Coast at Le Havre. In his youth he painted caricature portraits and exhibited them in the art supplies shop in which Eugene Boudin worked at the time....

Camille Pissarro

Camille Pissarro was born on July 10 1830 in Saint-Thomas, France. He is a famous Impressionist painter. Biography and Career : Camille Pissarro spent his childhood and youth at Saint-Thomas in the Antilles where he studied painting under the Danish landscapist Melbye. Despite the insistence of his father who was a businessman, Pissarro refused to make a career in comJllerce and went to...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born on February 25, 1841 in Limogen, France. He was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. Biography and Career : Pierre Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges and brought up in Paris, where his father, a tailor with a large family, settled in 1845. From the age of thirteen he worked as an apprentice, painting flowers...

Eugene Boudin

Eugene Boudin was born on July 12, 1824 in Honfleur - Normandy, France. He was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors. Biography and Career : Eugene Boudin was born in Honfleur, the son of a harbour pilot. From his adolescence he worked in an art supplies shop in Le Havre and drew in his spare time. The artists who visited the city, in particular Corot, Isabey, Troyon...