Camille Pissarro is often called the dean of the Impressionist painters, the only artist to exhibit in all eight of the group's Paris exhibitions between 1874 and 1886, a fact regularly cited as evidence of the organizational and mentoring role that held the fractious group together through his age and temperament. His work centers on rural landscapes, peasant labor, market scenes and later Parisian cityscapes, built from close observation of natural light on the land rather than urban leisure. He mentored a generation of younger painters, notably Paul Cezanne and Paul Gauguin, who called him Father Pissarro, and around 1885 to 1888 he adopted the pointillist technique of Georges Seurat and Paul Signac before returning to a broader Impressionist manner in his final years.
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BirthplaceCharlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands) 1 Active From Year Active To Year TrainingStudied as a youth at the Savary Academy in Passy, near Paris; came into close contact with the Barbizon painters as an informal associate of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot after settling in Paris around 1855; later worked alongside and was influenced by Gustave Courbet. 1 Disputed
NationalityBorn a Danish colonial subject in the Danish West Indies to a family of French-Portuguese Jewish descent; lived and worked almost entirely in France and is conventionally classified as French (the convention followed here), but the National Gallery of Art, Washington describes him as Danish-French and no confirmed French naturalization date was found in this pass. Connections
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The only artist to exhibit in all eight Impressionist group exhibitions, 1874-1886.
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Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of Saint Thomas.
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Camille Pissarro is often called the dean of the Impressionist painters, the only artist to exhibit in all eight of the group's Paris exhibitions between 1874 and 1886, a fact regularly cited as evidence of the organizational and mentoring role that held the fractious group together through his age and temperament.
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- Practices: Painting
- In Movement: Impressionism
- Mentored: Paul Cezanne
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