[1] Upon immigrating to California to take advantage of the Gold Rush, becoming a businessman and French consular agent; later serving as Vice-Consul.

Years later, he helped incorporate and served as President of the Brush Electric Light Company branch in San Jose.

[2] Together Pedro de Saisset and Maria Palomares had four children together: Henrietta, Ernest, Pierre, and Isabel (1876–1950).

He stayed in Paris for nine years altogether, studying with Jules Lefebvre, Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant and William Bouguereau, among others.

[6] His sister Isabel de Saisset, who died in 1950, bequeathed a large sum for the establishment of an art museum, to be named in his honor, at Santa Clara University.