Claude Monet

Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of impressionism painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of impressionism's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions of nature, especially as applied to plein air (outdoor) landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant, exhibited in 1874 initiated by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon.

14 November 1840

Born on the same birth day (14 November): Bharathan • Carl Hayman • David Wesley • Dougie Payne • Eliseo Salazar • Francisco Lindor • Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow • Harold Larwood • James Young (American musician) • John Bromwich • Louise Brooks • Patrick Warburton • Roger Apéry • Samuel Umtiti • Stephen Bishop (singer) • Stephen Guarino • Taylor Hall

Born in the same month (November 1840): Auguste Rodin • Henry Birks • John Brashear • Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau • Victoria, Princess Royal • William Giblin