NAME THE ARTIST.... Probably you said ‘Claude Monet’ and you’d be forgiven for thinking so. Indeed, if you scroll to the second image that IS a Monet Haystack (for comparison). At first glance they look superficially much the same, but actually the first is by an American painter called Thomas Bufford Meteyard (1865-1928). Called ‘Winter, Scituate, Massachusetts’ it was painted in the 1890s and is now in the collection of @pallanthousegallery - one of only two works by this American Impressionist in a British museum (the other is in @natgalleriessco ). Meteyard grew up in Chicago, studied at Harvard until 1887 and then came to England, where he was influenced by the Aesthetic movement. He went to Paris to study under Léon Bonnat and was influenced by the French Symbolists. He met Edvard Munch and Stéphane Mallarmé in Paris, and by 1890, Meteyard was in Giverny, where Monet had his famous garden and there was a colony of artists, like moths to a flame. He spent ten months in Giverny in 1891 and 1892. He experimented with Japanese-inspired composition, and also painted nocturnes informed by Whistler. From 1894-1914 he lived at Scituate in Massachusetts, but travelling extensively, and in 1911 he settled permanently in Rye in East Sussex, living behind the house of the writer Henry James. Meteyard exhibited at the Boston Art Club, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and internationally, including a retrospective in 1926 at the Impressionist dealership Galerie Georges Petit in Paris (run by Gaston and Josse Bernheim-Jeune). Whilst undoubtedly derivative, Meteyard’s paintings are accomplished and appealing and something about our haystacks reminds me of Vanessa Bell’s later views of the snow at Firle. It feels rather appropriate on these snowy days to give Meteyard’s work a closer look. #thomasbuffordmeteyard #monet #haystack #snow #impressionism #americanimpressionism (at Pallant House Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLEJhK9lvn1/?igshid=172ipgvv6hfmk