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 Impressionists and exhibited in all of their shows. He taught and influenced other famous painters like Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin. Pissarro painted landscapes and scenes depicting sunlight throughout his career, producing a large body of work that can be found in galleries across Europe today.