The family moved in 1845.and he spent his childhood in the port town of Le Havre.

Monet took his early painting lessons there from the painter Eugene Boudin. Boudin, who specialised in scenes of people strolling on beaches, worked up sketches out-of-doors and encouraged Monet to do the same. Water lillies In 1858.he spent some time in Paris, studied briefly with Gleyre and met and befriended Pissarro and Manet.

He spent the two years between 1860 and 1862 in military service in Algeria, then returned to Paris.

Once back in Paris, he studied full-time under Gleyre and became close friends with Renoir.Sisley and Bazille - also students of Gleyre. The period from 1867 to 1870 was coloured by extreme financial hardship.

The birth of his illegitimate son Jean in 1867 occurred under such dire f...

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