Michael Wilson is Head of Exhibitions and Displays at the National Gallery, London. He has written several books, including Nature and Imagination: the Work of Odilon Redon.
The Impressionists need little introduction. The names of Pissarro, Manet, Degas, Sisley, Cezanne, Monet and Renoir are familiar to everyone and their paintings remain highly popular over a hundred years after they...