The word most associated with Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884) is influential. At times that influence was indirect. The link above cites British artist and critic Roger Fry contending the Bastien-Lepage greased the skids for public acceptance of Impressionism, an opinion that not everyone would support.
But it isn't hard to find examples of direct influence. For instance, Roger Billcliffe in his book The Glasgow Boys describes how several members of that group of Scottish painters were strongly influenced by Bastien-Lapage's work during the early-mid 1880s.
Other artists did paintings in his style. Interestingly, all the examples I've encountered thus far are not French, though I suppose there are a few French paintings that fit the pattern. Here is what I've turned up:
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This is a typical Bastien-Lepage country scene that can be used for comparison to the images below.
Henry, Guthrie and Lavery are considered Glasgow Boys, though Lavery is more peripheral than the other two.
Reid was Scottish, but trained in Edinburgh and did most of his work in England.
She was Canadian, but spent a good part of her life in England as the wife of famed Newlyn School painter Stanhope Forbes (1857-1947).
Pearce was an American who went to France to study in 1873 and spent the rest of his career in France.
The question of influence always intrigues me. Let me raise just two elements here:
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2. There was a very important exhibition of many of his works but this was after he died. So what influences might he have had during his life - teaching? writing journal articles? advising galleries and private art patrons?
Hels -- Roger Billcliffe's book about the Boys mentions on page 58 that Bastien-Lapage's paintings had been "extensively" shown in London in 1882 where some of the Boys probably saw some of them.
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