Inventing Impressionism

National GalleryScore 99.3

£ £ Past exhibition Inventing Impressionism 04 March - 31 May 2015 So universally popular are the Impressionists today, it’s hard to imagine a time when they weren’t. But in the early 1870s they struggled to be accepted. Shunned by the art establishment, they were even lambasted as ‘lunatics’ by one critic. Find out more