Thomas in what is now the American Virgin Islands, Pissarro also lived in London for a time, returning there on several occasions to paint the Kew Gardens and other London scenes.
A Danish-French Jew, Pissarro was a transitional figure between the Impressionist and the Post-Impressionist painters. Indeed, his short, choppy brush marks and staccato daubs had more in common with Seurat, Signac and Cézanne than they did with Monet’s more fluid approach. (This can be seen in paintings like Boulevard Montmartre à Paris, 1897, which captures the bustling traffic outside a hotel window.) Pissarro liked to work outdoors, painting many rural landscapes over his career. Born on St. Thomas in what is now the American Virgin Islands, Pissarro also lived in London for a time, returning there on several occasions to paint the Kew Gardens and other London scenes.