British , 1857-1900 Related Paintings of William Stott of Oldham :. | Schwarzer Wasserfall | The Old Sycamore | Moonrise | Sparking Sea | By the Fireside | Related Artists: Johann Baptist Seele Germany (1774 -1814 ) Hans Muelich painted Court Jester Mertl, Munich in 1545 Jacques-Francois Ochard was a French artist, remembered as the first art teacher of Claude Monet at his high school.
Ochard had been a student of Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825), and lived in Normandy, to where Monet's family had moved in 1845. Ochard's method of instruction was the traditional one of drawing from plaster casts of the human figure.
