Of all the artists we call impressionists, the hardest was Alfred Sisley, who spent almost his life in poverty and oblivion. He was partly saved from starvation by a baker Muurer, who invited him for lunch. But this nice man, a friend of Pissarro, who has been collecting paintings of other impressionists, did not appreciate Sisley's paintings too much. Moorer had been advancing journalist Dure for almost a year, so that he would find a philanthropist, who would agree for an annual rent of 500 fr