Artist page for Camille Pissarro (–) Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro (piss-AR-oh; French: [kamij pisaʁo]; 10 July – 13 November ) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies). His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post.