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Camille
Pissarro was born in 1830 and died in 1903.
He was a French painter, born in Saint Thomas,
Virgin Islands. He moved to Paris in 1855 and
studied there with the French landscape artist
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot. He later became
associated with the Barbizon school. Afterwards,
he came under the influence of Claude Monet
and other impressionists. During the Franco
German War he lived in England, where he made
a study of the landscapes of Joseph Mallord
Turner. On his return to France he settled in
Normandy. For awhile, in the 1880's, he experimented
with pointillism, the neoimpressionist style
of painting with dots of color, but later returned
to the impressionist school.
A
painter of sunshine and the subtle effects of
light, he often painted scenes of Paris, Le
Havre, and London. An excellent teacher, he
influenced many of his contemporary French artists,
notably Paul Gauguin and Paul Cezanne. Pissarro's
paintings are included in the collections of
the Luxembourg Gallery, in Paris and many of
the leading galleries of Europe. The Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York City has his "Bather
In The Woods painting.
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