Lucien Pissarro

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Lucien Pissarro
Hewood, Dorset, England
NationalityFrench, British citizen
Known forLandscape painting, printmaking, wood engraving
MovementImpressionism
Neo-Impressionism
Spouse
Esther Levi Bensusan
(m. 1892)
Lucien Pissarro, Pastoral scene, 1901

Lucien Pissarro (20 February 1863 – 10 July 1944) was a French

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 oldest son of the French Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro and his wife Julie (née Vellay).[1]

Biography

Pissarro was born on 20 February 1863 in Paris, French Third Republic.[1] He was the oldest of seven children; the son of French Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro and his wife Julie (née Vellay).[1] 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.

He first visited

Brook Type.[3]

Pissarro associated with Walter Sickert in Fitzroy Street, and in 1906 became a member of the New English Art Club. From 1913 to 1919 he painted landscapes of Dorset, Westmorland, Devon, Essex, Surrey and Sussex.

Lucien Pissarro's house in Stamford Brook, London, with a blue plaque bearing the following inscription: "Lucien Pissarro 1863–1944 Painter, Printer, Wood Engraver lived here".

In 1916 Pissarro became a British citizen. While in Britain he was one of the founders of the

J.B. Manson as the London Secretary and Théo van Rysselberghe as the Paris secretary, aiming to show artists inspired by Impressionist painters, Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro. The group ceased three years later.[5]

From 1922 to 1937 he painted regularly in the south of France, interspersed with painting expeditions to Derbyshire, south Wales and Essex. From 1934 to 1944 he exhibited at the

Royal Academy
in London. He died on 10 July 1944, in Hewood, Dorset.

References

  1. ^ . Retrieved 13 June 2013.
  2. The Bancroft Library
  3. , p. 31
  4. ^ "James Bolivar Manson", Tate collection online, material from Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II. Retrieved 18 December 2007.

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