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Camille Pissarro

1830-1903 France/Impressionism

Brief Biography-Camille Pissarro was from St. Thomas in the West Indies. After a brief visit to Venezuela to paint with a friend, he went to Paris, where the École des Beaux-Arts admitted him in 1855. Jean Baptiste Camille Corot influenced him primarily until his friendship with Claude Monet in the Académie Suisse. In 1863, the Salon des Refusés exhibited many of his works, but he could not make a living. During the Franco-Prussian war, he fled to London with Monet. There they studied the paintings of Constable and Turner. Pissarro lived in Pontoise in 1872, where he painted with Cézanne. In 1884, he settled in Eragny, where he met Seurat, whose pointillism influenced him throughout the eighties. In the nineties, Pissarro became relatively successful through his dealer Durand-Ruel who arranged extensive exhibitions of his works. However, by 1897 his sight was failing, and he became confined to painting from windows. His last known painting was in 1903. His eldest son Lucien who settled in London also became a successful painter.

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