Lucien Pissarro
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Lucien Pissarro (20 February 1863 – 10 July 1944) was a French painter, printmaker and wood engraver. His works employ techniques of Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism, but he also exhibited with Les XX.
Eldest son of the Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, he was born in Paris and studied with his father.
From 1890 he lived in London, becoming a British citizen in 1916.
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 Theo 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.
He married Esther Bensusan. Their only child, Orovida, was also an artist.
