Painter in the Impressionist manner, teacher and restorer, born in Paris, great-grand-daughter of the French artist Camille Pissarro. She studied with her grandfather Paulémile Pissarro and father Hugues-Claude; her grandparents brought her up until the age of 11; her mother Katia was an art dealer. Aged 16, Lélia enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts, Tours, having already exhibited at the Salon de la Peinture and sold her first canvas to a New York dealer. In Paris, she taught art at the Moria School, studied restoration with an expert from the Louvre and had a solo show at Galerie du Marais. Lélia married the art dealer David Stern and they settled in London. She exhibited internationally, in 1993 was included in Four Generations of the Pissarro Family at Portland Gallery and in 1997 showed solo at Catto Gallery.