1. Key Artistic Developments
The Impressionist group was first formed around 1870 in France by Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley and Frederic Bazille due to their shared discontent with academic teaching. ... He also purchased works by Degas, Manet, Renoir and Sisley to be the first Impressionist works to be viewed in London, though was not a great success. ... In 1873 the Salon rejected works by Pissarro, Monet, Renoir, Cezanne and Sisley. ...
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