Danish-French, 1830-1903.

Often regarded as the “father” of the Impressionist movement, Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter. Pissarro studied from great forerunners, including Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.  Pissarro was the only artist to show his work in all eight Impressionist group exhibitions.  He experimented with many styles, including a period when he adopted Georges Seurat’s pointillist approach. A supportive friend and mentor to influential artists such as Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin, he was described by many who knew him as “Father Pissarro.”