Jean-Marie Villard

His father was a carpenter and contractor,[1] who wanted his son to be an intellectual, but Jean was more interested in drawing with charcoal in the workshop.

Still wishing to be an artist, he took classes with Auguste Goy [fr], a landscape painter who taught at the local college.

Goy encouraged him to pursue his career in art, but Villard was soon promoted to a teaching position at the boys' school in Brest.

Most of his canvases were landscapes and genre works inspired by his native region, painted during periodic visits to Ploaré.

He was a great artist, but they had made him a poor professor.— Max Jacob[6] Media related to Jean-Marie Villard at Wikimedia Commons