Born in Toulouse, Henri Jean Guillaume Martin [1860-1943], French painter, first trained in Toulouse at the École des Beaux-Arts under Jules Garipuy. Martin went, as a young man to Paris where he studied in 1879 under J.P Laurens. He exhibited his paintings the following year at the Paris Salon and became known in 1883 with a work entitled Françoise de Rimini.
Martin traveled to Italy in 1885 and the trip had a decisive influence over his career. He had so far been a classical painter and after discovering the light of the Italian skies and the works of Giotto and of primitive painters, Martin then painted works full of poetry using a special technique with swift, short separated and parallel brush strokes giving them vaporous touch.
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