Camille Pissarro was a French impressionist painter born in 1830 in the Virgin Islands. He moved to Paris in 1855 and studied landscape painting. Pissarro was initially associated with the Barbizon school but later joined the impressionist movement, exhibiting in all of their shows. He taught and influenced other famous artists like Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin. Pissarro produced many landscapes depicting rural scenes with sunlight and played of light. He had a prolific career producing many paintings, watercolors, and graphics now displayed in galleries across Europe.