Suave, soi-disant, sophisticated and suffused with Gallic gravitas, the impressionist painter Adolphe Valette brought French élan to the smoke and fogs of Edwardian Manchester.

Suave, soi-disant, sophisticated and suffused with Gallic gravitas, the impressionist painter Adolphe Valette brought French élan to the smoke and fogs of Edwardian Manchester.