| 1830 |
10 July --> Born on the island of
St Thomas, Virgin Islands.
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| 1842-47 |
Attends school in Passy outside Paris.
|
| 1847 |
Returns to St Thomas and joins
family business.
|
| 1852-54 |
To Venezuela with Fritz Melbye,
Danish painter.
|
| 1855 |
Travels to Paris Visits World
Exhibition.
|
| 1856-58 |
Works in Paris, with financial help from his parents.
|
| 1859 |
First picture accepted for Salon
(also exhibits in 1864, 1865, 1866, 1868,
1869 and 1870). Visits Academie
Suisse, where he meets Monet.
|
| 1860 |
Meets Julie Vellay, who later becomes his wife.
|
| 1861 |
Registers as a copyist at the
Louvre. Meets Guillaumin and
Cezanne at the Academie Suisse.
|
| 1863 |
Three landscapes exhibited in the
Salon des Refuses. Son Lucien is born.
|
| 1866 |
Settles at Pontoise. Attends Zola's
meetings and formative meetings of the Impressionist group at the
Cafe Guerbois.
|
| 1867 |
Paints View of Hermitage at
Pontoise.
|
| 1869 |
Moves to Louvecietines. Paints
with Monet and Renoir at La
Grenouillere.
|
| 1870 |
Franco-Prussian War drives
Pissarro to London.
|
| 1871 |
Marries Julie. Paints Lordship Lane
Station, Dulwich, London. Returns
to Louveciennes.
|
| 1872 |
Settled back in Pontoise. Uzanne
at Auvers-sur-Oise.
|
| 1873 |
Impressionist Society formed.
Paints Pink Peonies.
|
| 1874 |
April 15, exhibits five landscapes in
the first Impressionist exhibition
(Pissarro exhibits in all of them -->
1876, 1877, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882
and 1886).
|
| 1875-80 |
Struggling to make a living (fourth
son born 1878). Paints The Little
Bridge, Pontoise (1875) and Kitchen
Carden with Trees in Flower,
Pontoise (1877).
|
| 1879 |
About this time, paints Mme
Pissarro Sewing near a Window.
Gauguin paints with Pissarro at
Pontoise.
|
| 1881 |
Break-up of original Impressionist
group. Paints The Shepherdess.
|
| 1883 |
Durand-Ruel organizes a one-man
show for Pissarro. Lucien leaves
for England. Visit to Rouen,
paints The Quays at Rouen.
|
| 1884 |
Moves to Eragny.
|
| 1885-91 |
Joins Seurat and Signae in the
Neo-Impressionist movement.
Paints Apple Picking at Eragny-
sur-Epte. In September contracts
eye infection.
|
| 1890 |
Visits Lucien in London (and again
in 1892 and 1897).
|
| 1892 |
Successful one-man show of a
hundred paintings. Buys the house
at Eragny.
|
| 1894 |
To Belgium to escape reprisals
against Anarchists.
|
| 1893-1903 |
Paints urban views of Rouen, Le Havre, Dieppe and Paris such as
The Boulevard Montmartre at
Night, 1897.
|
| 1903 |
13 November: Pissarro dies in Paris |
