Alfred Sisley was a Paris born impressionist painter. Sisley, after deciding business wasn’t his thing, started studying painting under Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre. This teaching would put him in contact with Baizille, Monet, and Renoir, whom he would make friends with and paint with. The group would go to paint landscapes en plein air and work to capture how the sunlight fell on the world.  Later in life, his father who gave him allowances would die and Sisley would live the rest of his life in poverty. Sisley would go on to paint practically only landscapes in the impressionist style his whole life as he found fulfillment in them.