Paul emile pissarro biography of william

Paul-Emile Pissarro was born on August 22nd, 1884 in Eragny, France, the fifth and youngest son of Camille Pissarro.  With his father and four brothers being artists, he became part of an artistic household and began drawing at an early age.  A white horse drawn when he was 5 years old, received much praise from the writer Mirbeau.  Camille was so impressed that he kept it as part of his private collection.




Camille had a great gift for encouraging other artists and gave his own children special attention, guiding and teaching them how to observe and draw what they saw, without imposing his own style.  The Pissarro family home at Eragny, to which the moved in 1884, was a place of constant artistic production and discussion.  On the walls were works by Cezanne, Van Gogh, Cassatt, Sisley, Delacroix and Camille himself, but also works by Paulemile’s older brothers.  The "Eragny artists" produced a