Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) Camille Jacob Pissarro was a French impressionist painter friendship and support provided encouragement for many younger painters. Pissarro was born in Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands, and moved to Paris in 1855, where he studi with the French landscape painter Camille Corot. At first associated with the Barbizon school, Pissarro subsequently joined the impressionists and was represented in all their exhibitions. During the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), he lived in England and made a study of English art, parti the landscapes of Joseph Mallord William Turner. For a tim 1880s Pissarro, discouraged with his work, experimented wi ism; the new style, however, proved unpopular with collectors and de eturned to a freer impressionist style.A painter of sunshine and the ating play of light,Pissarro produced many quiet rural landscapes an he also painted street scenes in Paris, Le Havre, and London. lent teacher, he counted among his pupils and associates the French Paul Gauguin and Paul Cézanne, his son Lucien Pissarro, and the Ame onist Mary Cassatt. Of Pissarro's great output (including paintings, ors, and graphics),ny works hang in the Luxembourg Gallery, Paris, he leading galleries of Europe. opolitan Museum of Art, New York City, has his Bather in the Woods ( SzetS