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    Caroline Bulger

    Caroline Bulger is an art critic, journalist, author and regular contributor to Country Life.
    ‘Reactions to the French in the 1870s varied from outrage to curious interest’: Impressionism's painstaking ten year journey to be taken seriously by the Brits

    Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro spent time in London, but it took James McNeill Whistler to act as artistic bridge with Britain and the ‘sweetened’ Impressionism of Jules Bastien-Lepage to inspire most homegrown painters.

    By Caroline Bulger Published 3 July 25

    • Bathers (1874). Throughout his painting career, Cézanne would always revisit the Classical subject of bathers in a landscape. (Photo by Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images)
      Paul Cézanne: Stubbornness, single-mindedness, and the struggle to capture sensations on canvas

      Determination, rather than innate brilliance, made Paul Cézanne a great painter, but he was always more at home in his native Provence than in the Parisian art world says Caroline Bugler.

      By Caroline Bulger Published 14 October 22

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