Artists by the likes of "Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renior, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Berthe Morisot, Armand Guillaumin and Frederic Bazille" all worked together, subsequently influencing each other. 

The group of artists exhibited together, independent of outside support.

Other well known painters such as Edgar Degas and Paul Cezanne also painted in the Impressionistic style for a period in the 1870s.