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According to art historian, why was the work of Alfred Sisley not given more attention during his lifetime?

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Answer: Alfred Sisley is one of Impressionism's most unjustly overlooked artists. This may perhaps be due to the fact that Sisley straddled two different cultures, having been born to English parents in France and later dividing his time between the two countries. As such, though he worked as one of the key figures in French Impressionism, he remained something of an outsider. Unlike many of his peers, who examined urban life, industrialization, and people, Sisley was almost exclusively a painter of landscapes, a subject from which he rarely strayed. What's more, there is a moodiness and distinct colorism in his works that suggest an influence from earlier periods of English and French art, especially the Barbizon school. As such, Sisley created his own unique brand of Impressionism that foreshadowed many of the new painting styles that would emerge in Europe after the turn of the 20th century

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(1) Sisley was influenced by English painters, which went down badly in the French market (even though Sisley was born and spent most of his life in France). (2) Art historians ignore Sisley's work because they focus on social history, which Sisley's people-less landscapes largely ignored.

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