Jacques Linard (c. 1597-1645)

• Was a French painter.
• Linard was baptised on 6 September 1597.

• His father, Jehan Linard, was also an artist.

• In 1631, he married Marguerite Tréhoire, daughter of the painter Romain Tréhoire.

• That same year, he was first officially recorded as a painter and a "Royal Chamberlain".

• He and Marguerite had three sons who died in infancy and a daughter, also Marguerite.

• His sister married Claude Baudesson and gave birth to the still-life painter Nicolas Baudesson. 

• Only about fifty works of his have been positively identified.

• Of all the artists of the period who are classified as "Northern Realists", he appears to have been the first in France to base his style on and create themes relating to the "Five Senses" and the "Four Elements". 

• His work is believed to have inspired Louise Moillon, the most famous still-life painter of that time. 

• He was interred at the Church of Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs.

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