Camille Pissarro

Camille Pissarro was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter, born in 1830 at Charlotte Amalie on Saint Thomas in the Danish West Indies. He learned from Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, and in 1873 helped establish a collective society of fifteen artists, becoming the figure who held the group together; he is the only artist who showed at all eight Paris Impressionist exhibitions, from 1874 to 1886. At 54 he took up the Neo-Impressionist style alongside Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, and he acted as a father figure to Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin and Van Gogh. Éragny was his principal home until he died in Paris in 1903.