Manet and the French impressionists: Pissarro--Claude Monet--Sisley--Renoir--Berthe Morisot--Cézanne--Guillaumin . d the sea. Sisley, whospoke English fluently, had special facilities for working in Eng-land, but he very rarely took advantage of them. He was essen-tially French in his manners, tastes, and ideas ; in England healways felt himself to be in a foreign country. Nevertheless heremained an English subject by the fact of his parentage. In1895 he wished to become a naturalised Frenchman; he tookthe necessary steps, but as he was unable to produce certainfamily documents which were dema
Manet and the French impressionists: Pissarro--Claude Monet--Sisley--Renoir--Berthe Morisot--Cézanne--Guillaumin . d the sea. Sisley, whospoke English fluently, had special facilities for working in Eng-land, but he very rarely took advantage of them. He was essen-tially French in his manners, tastes, and ideas ; in England healways felt himself to be in a foreign country. Nevertheless heremained an English subject by the fact of his parentage. In1895 he wished to become a naturalised Frenchman; he tookthe necessary steps, but as he was unable to produce certainfamily documents which were demanded, the matter fell through,and he retained his English nationality until his death. He diedof cancer at Moret on January 29, 1899. Sisley did not live to see any real change of fortune take placein his favour. Until his last day he remained in straitened cir-cumstances, although at the end his prospects improved, and hesold his pictures more readily. Moreover, a certain satisfactioncame to him from another quarter. In 1879 he entertained theidea of again exhibiting at the official Salon, but almost immedi-. SISLEY 157 ately abandoned it. In 1890, however, the Socicte Jiationale desBeaux-Arts was formed, seceding from the Socicte des ArtistesFran$ais, which continued to hold the official Salons. The newsociety inaugurated an exhibition of its own, a kind of secondSalon, in the Champ-de-Mars, and extended a warm welcome toSisley. He exhibited there in 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, each timeshowing seven or eight canvases. It was a substantial advantagefor him thus to appear in prominent exhibitions which attracted thegeneral public; it gave his work a kind of relative sanction. Finally, by a change as sudden as it was profound, the homagewhich had been denied to Sisley in his lifetime was rendered to himafter his death. It is well known that nothing conduces so muchto the appreciation of an artists works as his death. There is thestory of Teniers, who, being unable to dispose of th
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