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Camille Pissarro
Self-Portrait, oil on canvas by Camille Pissarro, 1873; in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
Julie Vellay was the wife of the French Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro. Originally employed as a maid for Pissarro’s mother, Vellay began a relationship with the artist around 1860. The couple had their first child, Lucien, in 1863 and eventually went on to have eight children together. They were married in London in 1871.1