Jacob-Abraham-Camille Pissarro was a Danish-French painter cum printmaker who made a great contribution in both Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist form of art. He studied the works of eminent artists including pioneer of the Realist movement, Gustave Courbet and landscape and portrait artist cum printmaker Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. Pissarro along with his friends including Edgar Degas and Claude Monet played a contributory role in carving the Impressionist movement. He aided in forming a society comprising of 15 artists and was often called ‘Father Pissarro’ by many of his acquaintances. He has mentored and supported many of his friends and associates including Post-Impressionists Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cézanne. He is noted as the only artist whose work has been exhibited in all the 8 Impressionist exhibitions held in Paris. He advocated the idea of exhibiting work at alternative forums. Pissarro attempted different styles in his work and at a later stage studied Neo-Impressionist style and also adopted the ‘pointillist’ approach of post-Impressionist painter, Georges Seurat and his contemporary Paul Signac. He preferred creating portraits in natural environment.