Pissarro was born on 20 February 1863 in
Paris,
French Third Republic. He was the oldest of seven children; the son of French
Impressionist painter
Camille Pissarro and his wife Julie (née Vellay). --> He first visited
Great Britain in 1870–71, during the
Franco-Prussian War. He returned in 1883–84, and in 1890 settled permanently in
London. and with his wife and illustrated and printed books until the press was closed in 1914. In 1897, the family moved to 62 Bath Road in
Stamford Brook,
Chiswick. 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. ,
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
Camden Town Group of artists. In 1919, he formed the Monarro Group with
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. 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 the hamlet of Hewood, part of
Thorncombe parish, West Dorset. ==References==