Born on St. Thomas on July 10, 1803 in the town of Charlotte Amalie, Camille Pissarro may be the Virgin Islands most famous native son. He is considered to be the leader of the Impressionism movement of painting. Local boy makes good!

Pissarro lived in St. Thomas as a youth. The Pissarro family operated a general store in what is now known as the Pissarro Building, at 14 Dronnigens Gade in Charlotte Amalie. The family lived upstairs over the store.

At boarding school in Paris the director noted his artistic talent and interests, and advised him to take "advantage of his life in the tropics by drawing coconut trees." Pissarro painted several tropic landscapes.

Pissarro was an active painter up until the time he died in 1903.

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