Lucien Pissarro
French painter (1863-1944)
Lucien Pissarro (20 February 1863 – 10 July 1944) was a French landscape painter, printmaker, wood engraver, designer, and printer of fine books. His landscape paintings employ techniques of Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism, but he also exhibited with Les XX. Apart from his landscapes, he painted a few still lifes and family portraits. Until 1890 he worked in France, but thereafter was based in Great Britain. He was the eldest son of the French Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro and his wife Julie (née Vellay).
Biography
Pissarro was born on 20 February 1863 in Paris, French Third Republic. He was the oldest of seven children; the son of French Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro and his wife Julie (née Vellay). His grandfather on his father's side was of Portuguese Jewish descent and his grandmothermother was from a French-Jewish family from St. Thomas with Provençal Jewish roots. He studied with his father and—like his siblings Georges and Félix—he spent his formative years surrounded by his father's fellow artists, such as Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, who frequented the Pissarro home. He was influenced by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac.
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