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Read Part 1 >>> French impressionism influenced artists throughout the world,including Americans J. M. Whistler, Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, Willard Metcalf, John Twactman, Child Hassam and Englishman Walter Sickert, Italian Giovanni Segantini, and Spaniard Joaquín Sorolla and Richard Earl Thompson. Impressionism also affected the development of painting. Painters who …

During the early nineteenth century freedom of expression was almost foreign to the art world. The now famous l863 Parisian Salon des Refuses proved to be a landmark in the history of Modern art. Napoleon III set up the Salon des Refuses to appease those painters (Monet, Manet, Pissarro, Whistler,Jongkind …