Lucien Pissarro: (1863–1944)

Lucien Pissarro NEAC (20 February 1863 – 10 July 1944) was a landscape painter, printmaker, wood engraver and designer and printer of fine books. His landscape paintings employ techniques of Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism, but he also exhibited with Les XX. Apart from his landscapes, he painted a few still lifes and family portraits. Until 1890 he worked in France but thereafter was based in Britain. He was elected a member of the New English Art Club in 1906.

Pissarro was born on 20 February 1863 in Paris. He was the eldest of seven children; the son of Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro and his wife Julie (née Vellay). He studied with his father and, like his siblings Georges and Félix, he spent his formative years surrounded by his father's fellow artists such as Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir who frequented the Pissarro home. He was influenced by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac.

In 1886, he exhibited at the last of the Impressionist exhibitions. From 1886 to 1894 he exhibited with the Salon des Independents.

He first visited Britain in 1870-1 during the Franco-Prussian War. He returned in 1883–4, and in 1890 settled permanently in London. On 10 August 1892, he married Esther Levi Bensusan in Richmond. Whilst renting a cottage at Epping, Essex on 8 October 1893, their daughter and only child Orovida Camille Pissarro was born. Orovida also became an artist. He met Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon and contributed woodcuts to their Dial. In 1894 he founded the Eragny Press and with his wife and illustrated and printed books until the press was closed in 1914. In 1897, the family moved to 62 Bath Road in Stamford Brook, Chiswick. In 1903, he designed the typeface Brook Type.