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Camille Pissarro

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Personal details and public facts.

Profession
Painter
Died
Nov 13, 1903
Zodiac
Cancer
Born in
Denmark
About
This influential nineteenth-century Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter is remembered for such masterpieces as The Harvest, Boulevard Montmartre à Paris, and Orchard in Bloom, Louveciennes.
Family
He was born in St. Thomas (then part of the Dutch West Indies) to a French-Portuguese father of Jewish heritage and a mother of Creole descent. He later settled in Pontoise and Louveciennes, France, with his wife, Julie Vellay, and their seven children.

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