Add a few noughts for a sunny landscape?

Vivienne looks at the work of impressionists at home and abroad – and the tidy sums their paintings still demand.

The work of the impressionists continues to be popular, despite current trends for more modern art. One of the paintings we have pictured is by Eugène Boudin, who befriended the 18-year-old Claude Monet and persuaded him to give up his teenage caricature drawings and become a landscape painter, helping to inspire in him a love of the play of light on water…