Camille Pissarro · 1830–1903
Camille Pissarro
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) was a French Impressionist painter born on the Caribbean island of St. Thomas. As the eldest of the Impressionists, he is said to have taught Impressionism to Cézanne and Gauguin.
Camille Pissarro was born on the Caribbean island of St. Thomas and went to Paris at 25 to study painting in earnest. Moved by the works of Courbet and Corot, he passed through a period of realism and open-air painting, then met Monet and became an Impressionist. Seeing the works of Turner and Constable in London during the Franco-Prussian War is said to have led him to resolve to be a landscape painter.
His calm rural landscapes at Pontoise and Éragny are synonymous with Pissarro's painting. The eldest of the Impressionists, he played the role of teaching Impressionism to Cézanne and Gauguin. In Japan, Autumn, Morning, Overcast Weather, Éragny and London, Hyde Park are held.
Camille Pissarro was born on July 10, 1830 and died on November 13, 1903.
