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During Monet’s lifetime, Brits weren’t much impressed by his paintings of London, says Mark Hudson in The Independent. The Courtauld Gallery’s new exhibition of 21 paintings from the impressionist’s visit to the capital in 1899 shows just how wrong we were. The artist was bemused that British painters didn’t appreciate the thing he found most interesting about the city – the toxic fog that formed an “envelope” around its landmarks, as he put it – and was determined to do it justice.
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