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Camille Pissarro (July 10, 1830 – November 13, 1903) was a French impressionist painter.Camille Pissarro was born in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas to Abraham Gabriel Pissarro, a Sephardic Jew of Portuguese ancestry from Bordeaux, and Rachel Manzano-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. In 1852, he travelled to Venezuela with the Danish artist Fritz Melbye. In 1855, he moved to Paris, where he studied with the French landscape artist Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot.
Known as the Father of Impressionism, he painted rural French life, particularly landscapes and workers in the fields as well as scenes from Montmartre. He then went to Paris to teach, where some of his students were Californian Impressionist Lucy Bacon , Paul Cezanne and Paul Gauguin.
His influence on the Impressionists is probably still underrated, not only were many of the ideas his own, but he also managed to remain on friendly, mutually respectful terms with such difficult personalities as Degas, Cézanne and Gauguin. Generally seen as a minor Impressionist, Pissarro exhibited at all eight of the Impressionist exhibitions and may have been the main thinker in the development of the theory of Impressionism, as Monet was its main practitioner.
Probably the strength of Pissarro's mind got rather in the way of his painting as he felt the need to try out all new forms of painting as they came along, thus he painted in the Neo-Impressionist form between 1885 and 1890, before returning to a more pure Impressionism before the end of his life.
In March 1893, Paris Gallery Durand-Ruel organized a major exhibition of 46 of Pissarro's works along with 55 others by Antonio de La Gandara. But while the critics acclaimed Gandara, their appraisal of Pissarro's art was less enthusiastic.
He died in Éragny-sur-Epte on either November 12 or November 13, 1903 and was buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.