Born in Tours in 1831, Édouard Avisseau was the son of Charles-Jean Avisseau. Gifted at working with ceramics, he refined his drawing and painting skills in the workshop of Julien-Léopold Lobin.
He took over his father’s workshop and preserved its techniques. He worked more closely with the diocese.
He thus made two high altars, one for the chapel of La Grande-Bretèche, the other for the Saint-Pierre-Ville church.
But the Avisseaus had gone out of fashion. In 1890, roadworks on rue Avisseau led to the demolition of his father’s kiln. Shortly before his death, forced to sell the workshop and the family home, he died in 1911 in utter destitution.