Joaquín Clausell was a Mexican

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

 impressionist

Impressionism

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 painter. He was born in Campeche

Campeche, Campeche

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, studied law, and later became a journalist. He was opposed to Porfirio Díaz

Porfirio Díaz

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's regime and persecuted by the authorities; he left Mexico and went to New York City

New York City

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 and then moved to Paris

Paris

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, where he met Émile Zola

Émile Zola

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 and the work of painters such as Claude Monet

Claude Monet

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. Deeply influenced by them, as well as by older French painters such as Gustave Courbet

Gustave Courbet

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, he returned to Mexico to pursue a career in painting. He is considered the first painter to introduce Impressionism in Mexico.