Question

Below is the first painting to receive the label Impressionist. Who was the painter?
Pisarro

Degas

Cezanne

Monet

Answer 1

Monet

Explanation

Impressionism was developed by Claude Monet and other Paris-based artists from the early 1860s. (Though the process of painting on the spot can be said to have been pioneered in Britain by John Constable in around 1813–17 through his desire to paint nature in a realistic way).