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Pissarro: Father Of Impressionism
Ashmolean Museum Oxford
ACCORDING to the marketing bumf for the current exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, Camille Pissarro is the Father of Impressionism.
I first discovered his art when I was working in London. I loved the Impressionists and so made a trip to the Courtauld Institute where I came across his painting of Lordship Lane Station, Dulwich (1871). This made a big impression (ha!) as at the time I was renting a room in the same Lordship Lane, Dulwich.
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