Camille Pissarro was born on St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands but moved to Paris at age 12. There he studied painting at a number of art institutes around France. Among his mentors was Gustav Courbet and Jean Corot. He created many of his early works in France, then moved to England where he painted in London. During his lifetime, Pissarro mentored such greats as Paul Cezanne and Paul Gauguin. He experimented with pointilism and Neo-impressionism before settling once again on true impressionism. Pissarro sold very few of his paintings in his lifetime, but in the present his works are valued up to several million dollars.
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