Pissarro was born in St Thomas in the West Indies, the son of a Créole mother and a father of Portuguese-Jewish descent. He worked as a clerk in his father’s general store until 1852 when he ran away ...
Camille Pissarro (; 10 July 1830 â€“ 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the ...