Claude Monet’s ‘Impression, Sunrise’ is one of the most famous and beautiful seascapes in art history. The painting shows the port of Le Havre, Monet’s hometown, covered in the soft ...

“Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished than that seascape,” sneered Louis Leroy, an art critic, when describing Monet’s “Impression, Sunrise”. The painting of a hazy port in ...