Jewish French painter, Camille Pissarro, is considered either the founder of the French Impressionist painting movement or co-founder, according to what source you verify. He is also associated with the neo-Impressionist movement of French painting.He was born in 1840 in the town of Charlotte Amelie, Island of St. Thomas, Danish West Indies, among the tiny SEPHARDI Jewish community there.Pissarro is the only artist to have shown his work at all eight Paris Impressionist exhibitions, from 1874 to 1886. He "acted as a father figure not only to the Impressionists" but to all four of the major Post-Impressionists, including Georges Seurat, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin.