7. Camille Pissarro
The artist was a French-Jewish refugee. After the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, having only Danish nationality and being unable to join the army, Pissarro moved his family to Norwood, then a village on the edge of London. However, his style of painting, which was a forerunner of what was later called “Impressionism”, did not do well. He wrote to his friend, Theodore Duret, that “my painting doesn’t catch on, not at all …”