Claude Monet P 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. Between 1860 and 1862 Monet served in Algeria as a conscript. 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, and one that Monet embraced, reflecting in his paintings the ever-changing impact of light and weather conditions. This exhibition is now known as the First Impressionist Exhibition. During the 1880s.Monet travelled through France painting a variety of landscapes.

He gradually became better known and for the last 30 years of his life he was regarded as the greatest of the Impressionists.

The latter were painted in the elaborate garden Monet created at his house at Giverny, a property north-west of Paris where he lived from 1883.

He painted them over and over again, most significantly in a series commissioned for the Orangerie des Tuileries, a museum in Paris.

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