Henry Moret spent most of his life in Brittany painting Impressionist landscapes. His artistic career began after completing his formal education at the Ecole National des Beaux-Arts under Jean-Paul Laurens and Jean-Leon Gerome. Interestingly, Moret rejected his academic training in favor of the painting techniques of the Impressionists. In 1888, he moved to Pont-Aven where he worked alongside his friends, Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard, and was introduced to the tenets of Symbolism. After Gauguin left Pont-Aven in 1891, however, Moret returned to his earlier Impressionist style. In 1896, he settled in the nearby fishing village of Doelen where his art, a combination of Impressionist handling of the paint and t...