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Claude Monet  ©Monet was a French artist and a leading member of the Impressionist group of painters.

Claude-Oscar Monet was born in Paris, but spent his childhood in Le Havre where his father was a merchant.

There he met a local artist, Eugène Boudin, who encourage him to become a landscape painter.

In 1859, Monet went to Paris to study at the Académie Suisse, where he became close friends with a fellow student, Camille Pissarro.

Between 1860 and 1862 Monet served in Algeria as a conscript. He returned to Paris where he met most of the major artists of the era including Renoir, Cézanne, Whistler and Manet.

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In 1870, Monet married Camille Doncieux, who had already borne his son. To escape the Franco-Prussian war, the family moved to London. After their return to France they settled at Argenteuil, a boating centre on the Seine which drew many other Impressionist painters.

Working from nature was a particular hallmark of the Impressionist movement,