Frans Hals

Claude Monet 1840 - 1926 (see self portrait on left) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature.

The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise.

Monet was a student and follower of many types of Art and was a great admirer of Hals and travelled to the Netherlands to visit and research Hals works.

Édouard Manet (photo top left)

Charles-François Daubigny (photo top right)

, Max Liebermann, James Whistler, Gustave Courbet (photo bottom left)

, and in the Netherlands, Jacobus van Looy and Isaac Israëls are some of the Impressionists and realists who have delved deeply into the work of Hals by making study copies of his work and further building on his techniques and style. Many of them travelled to the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem.

The genius Monet pictured here, bottom right in his famous Graden.