But what I liked best was to do new paintings in the style of the French Impressionists.

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He also knew the French Impressionists' paintings of expansive avenues, exquisite vistas and elegant bourgeois society that marked the stunning transformation of Napoleon III's Paris into a gleaming, modern metropolis.

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Now competing for the best French Impressionists, they mean to show themselves as men of the world in the fullest economic and cultural sense.

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Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot was a leading mid-19th Century French painter who was a particular influence on the Impressionists.

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