Camille Pissarro (July 10, 1830 – November 13, 1903) was a French Impressionist painter. His importance resides not only in his visual contributions to Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, but also in his patriarchal standing among his colleagues, particularly Paul Cézanne. acob-Abraham-Camille Pissarro was born in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, to Abraham Gabriel Pissarro, a Portuguese Sephardic Jew, and Rachel ManzanaPomié, from the Dominican Republic. Pissarro lived in St. Thomas until age 12, when he went to a boarding school in Paris. He returned to St. Thomas where he drew in his free time. Pissarro was attracted to political anarchy, an. | Camille Pissarro 10 071830 - 13 11 1903 Camille Pissarro July 10 1830 - November 13 1903 was a French Impressionist painter. His importance resides not only in his visual contributions to Impressionism and Post-Impressionism but also in his patriarchal standing among his colleagues particularly Paul Cézanne. acob-Abraham-Camille Pissarro was born in Charlotte Amalie St. Thomas to Abraham Gabriel Pissarro a Portuguese Sephardic Jew and Rachel Manzana-Pomié from the Dominican Republic. Pissarro lived in St. Thomas until age 12 when he went to a boarding school in Paris. He returned to St. Thomas where he drew in his free time. Pissarro was attracted to political anarchy an attraction that may have originated during his years in St. Thomas. In 1852 he travelled to Venezuela with the Danish artist Fritz Melbye. In 1855 Pissarro left for Paris where he studied at various academic institutions including the École des Beaux-Arts and Académie Suisse and under a succession of masters such as JeanBaptiste-Camille Corot Gustave Courbet and Charles-François Daubigny. Corot is sometimes considered Pissarro s most important early influence Pissarro listed himself as Corot s pupil in the catalogues to the 1864 and 1865 Paris Salons. His finest early works See Jalais Hill Pontoise Metropolitan Museum of Art New York are characterized by a broadly painted sometimes with palette knife naturalism derived from Courbet but with an incipient Impressionist palette. While residing in London Pissarro lived at Westow Hill and Palace Road Upper Norwood 1870-1. He painted local views including the new Dulwich College Lordship Lane Station and St Stephen s Church. In 1890 he returned to England and painted some ten scenes of central London. He came back again in 1892 painting in Kew Gardens and Kew Green and also in 1897 when he produced several oils of Bedford Park Chiswick. For more details of his British visits see Nicholas Reed Camille Pissarro at Crystal Palace and Pissarro in West London
