Claude Monet
Claude Monet was born in Paris on November 14 1840. He grew up in LeHaver, near the coast. Even when he was a child he was a very good artist. His paintings were so good that one day an art supply store let him hang his paintings up in their window.
Monet’s parents however, didn’t want him to be an artist as they thought he wouldn’t make a good living. That didn’t stop him, of course and at the age of 20 he studied art at an inexpensive art school in Paris.
He often went on trips around France to paint. Sometimes his good friend Camille came along with him. She later became Monet’s wife. They ended up having two sons, Jean and Michel. During 1878 Camille fell ill and later died. A few years after that, Monet got married again to a women called Alice.
His family later moved to Giverny, a small town near Paris. It was here that he painted his Impressionist wheat stack and cathedral paintings that became very famous. The house had a lovely garden with a lily pond that had a Japanese bridge going over it. These were Monet’s favourite things to paint.
Monet died in 1926 in Giverny. A lot of people attended his funeral and unlike many artists, he was famous before he died. The house he used to live in is now a museum that is visited by many, many people each year.
Here are some of his famous paintings:
Morning Haze
Marine Near Etretat
Lily Pond
