Pissarro, Camille

French (Danish Virgin Islands-born) Impressionist painter.

1830 - Born on the 10th of July in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas.

1842 - Pissarro lived in St. Thomas when he went to a boarding school in Paris.

         - Returned to St. Thomas where he drew in his free time. Pissarro was attracted to political Anarchy, an attraction that may have originated during his years in St. Thomas.

1852 - Traveled to Venezuela with the Danish artist Fritz Melbye.

1855 - Studied at various academic institutions (including the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and Académie Suisse) and under a succession of masters, such as Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet, and Charles-François Daubigny.

1864-1865 - Listed himself as Corot's pupil in the catalogues.

1870-1871 - Lived at Westow Hill, Upper Norwood and the premises, a former Nat West Bank, have a blue plaque.

1885-1890 - Experimented with Neo-Impressionist ideas.

       - Discontented with what he referred to as "romantic Impressionism", he investigated Pointillism which he called "scientific Impressionism" before returning to a purer Impressionism in the last decade of his life.

1878 - Pisarro's Pallette with a Landscape.

1893 - Paris Gallery Durand-Ruel organized a major exhibition of 46 of Pissarro's works along with 55 others by Antonio de La Gandara.

1903 - Pissarro died in Éragny-sur-Epte on 13th of November and was buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

2005 - Camille Pissarro sold few of his paintings, however, some of his works were selling for over U.S. $4 million.