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Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley and his Wife, 1868. Sisley was born in Paris to affluent British parents. His father, William Sisley, was in the silk business, and his mother, Felicia Sell, was a cultivated music connoisseur. In 1857, at the age of 18, Alfred Sisley was sent to London to study for a career in business, but he abandoned it ...
A Couple (Les Fiancés) also known as The Engaged Couple or Alfred Sisley and his Wife, is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919), created around 1868 during his early Salon period at a time when he focused on thematic works about couples.
The watering trough became a favourite subject of Sisley's during his time at Marly, breaking with subjects of the 18th- and early-19th-century Paris Salons. Like Pissarro, Monet and Renoir, he showed more interest in its current domestic and utilitarian use than in its status as a remnant of the Ancien Régime or its past life as an ornamental ...
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Sisley's latest launch, Les Eaux Rêvées, is a reimagined collection of fragrances also dubbed "Dream Waters," and are inspired by members of the family (four scents are named after the d ...
Alfred Sisley (1839–1899) This is an incomplete list of the paintings by the British Impressionist artist Alfred Sisley, who was born to British parents in France, where he subsequently spent the majority of his life. Timeline. 1839 Born in Paris; 1839–1870 Paris; 1870–1875 Louveciennes, Yvelines (visit to England, 1874)
Joseph P. Kennedy's mistress Janet Fontaine gives intriguing details about her nine-year affair with one of the most powerful men in America. Kennedy patriarch's mistress tells all, says his wife ...
She also opened up about the tragic fates of several of her "Family Affair" co-stars, Brian Keith, who died by suicide, and Anissa Jones, who died of a drug overdose at just 18 years old.