Chronology

20 February 1863 Lucien Pissarro is born in Paris, the eldest of the seven children of the Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro and his wife Julie (née Vellay)

1870-1871 He first visits Britain during the Franco-Prussian War

1886 He exhibits with the Impressionists

1886 - 1894 He exhibits with the Salon des Independents

1888 He exhibits with the avant-garde group Les Vingt in Brussels

1890 Lucien Pissarro settles permanently in London

1892 He gets married to Esther Bensusan

1893 Birth of his only child, Orovida Camille Pissarro

1894 Lucien Pissarro founds the Eragny Press and with his wife print illustrated books until 1914

1903 He designs the typeface Brook Type

1906 Becomes a member of the New English Art Club

1916 He becomes a British citizen

1919  Forms the Monarro Group with J.B. Manson as the London Secretary and Theo van Rysselberghe as the Paris secretary, aiming to show artists inspired by Impressionist painters, Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro

10 July 1944 Lucien Pissarro dies in Hewood, Somerset