Impressionism - Beyond France

Beyond France

As the influence of Impressionism spread beyond France, artists, too numerous to list, became identified as practitioners of the new style. Some of the more important examples are:

  • The American Impressionists, including Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Frederick Carl Frieseke, Childe Hassam, Willard Metcalf, Lilla Cabot Perry, Theodore Robinson, Edmund Charles Tarbell, John Henry Twachtman, Catherine Wiley and J. Alden Weir.
  • Anna Boch, Vincent van Gogh's friend Eugène Boch, Georges Lemmen and Théo van Rysselberghe Impressionist painters from Belgium.
  • Walter Richard Sickert and Philip Wilson Steer were well known Impressionist painters from the United Kingdom.
  • The Australian Impressionists, including Frederick McCubbin and Tom Roberts who were prominent members of the Heidelberg School and John Peter Russell a friend of Van Gogh, Rodin, Monet and Matisse as well as Rupert Bunny, Agnes Goodsir and Hugh Ramsay.
  • Lovis Corinth, Max Liebermann, and Max Slevogt in Germany
  • László Mednyánszky in Hungary
  • Theodor von Ehrmanns and Hugo Charlemont who were rare Impressionists among the more dominant Vienna Secessionist painters in Austria
  • Roderic O'Conor, and Walter Osborne in Ireland
  • Konstantin Korovin and Valentin Serov in Russia
  • Francisco Oller y Cestero, a native of Puerto Rico and a friend of Pissarro and Cézanne
  • William McTaggart in Scotland.
  • Laura Muntz Lyall, a Canadian artist
  • Władysław Podkowiński, a Polish Impressionist and symbolist
  • Nazmi Ziya Güran, who brought Impressionism to Turkey
  • Chafik Charobim in Egypt
  • Eliseu Visconti in Brazil
  • Mārtiņš Krūmiņš in Latvia, Germany and the United States.
  • Joaquín Sorolla in Spain
  • Fernando Fader, Candido Lopez, Martín Malharro, Ramón Silva in Argentina
  • Skagen Painters a group of Scandinavian artists who painted in a small Danish fishing village
  • Nadežda Petrović in Serbia

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