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Linda, you raise a lot of good points. I was especially struck by what you said about the crowd at the museum gravitating toward the light-filled, colorful outdoor painting. I think that is the reason people are drawn to the Impressionists. I don't think it's the brushwork!
I photographed and painted two kids last summer outdoors but was able to control the light source by following a tip in a portrait photography book. By blocking the light above them with the roof of my porch I was able to get softly modelled form and an outdoor background and color.
Shooting outdoors under any kind of cover, or positioning the model very close to a structure of some kind (like standing next to a wall) will give you the shadowing and rounded forms we like in indoor photos.
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