What the Impressionist Painter Camille Pissarro Saw in London
In the early 1870s, an émigré painter watched from a railway footbridge as a steam engine left a station on London’s suburban fringe. His name was Camille Pissarro and he was developing a style of plein-air painting that would soon be called “Impressionism.” Pissarro and a fellow émigré, Claude Monet, only stayed in London for…
