Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin is a celebrated French Impressionist painter that initiated his career in 1877 at the Toulouse School of the Fine Arts, where he was a student of Henry-Eugéne Delacroix. He garnered a scholarship that assisted with his relocation to Paris and study at Academic painter Jean-Paul Laureans’ studio. Martin received a gold medal at the Paris Salon in 1883, and held his first exhibition there three years later. A secondary scholarship allowed him to travel to Italy and study classical Italian artists such as Giotto and Masaccio. Due to his variety of influences, Martin’s compositions ranged from Neo-impressionist to Pointillist and Symbolist styles of work. Despite his success in Paris, Martin was an introvert at heart
